He should have gone for help, but the thing with addicts is that most don't think they need help. Just like someone with some other mental illness thinks they are perfectly fine.
Addiction is a horrible thing to live with and just because one addict gets help and all is well, doesn't mean the same will happen for another. And even the addict or alcoholic who did get help, may start using again tomorrow.
With MJ, you have someone who is an addict. This addict, more than likely does not admit that he is an addict so there is strike one of getting help. His addictions are pain killers and this medication that put him to sleep; he is really in pain (all addicts to pain killers are) and he really cannot sleep--in his mind he needs this drugs, so is not an addict. Strike two on getting help. On top of all this, he has an MD who is sitting there ready, willing and able to give him the drugs he "needs". (thousands of addicts say everyday, "I'm not addicted, my dr. gives me this medication")Strike three on getting help.
This dr. did not act as a dr. should. This dr. should have been getting MJ the help he needed, instead he caused his death.
ITA! the problem with prescription meds is that they last so long, but keep the addict in a constant state, unlike street drugs or alcohol where people are more on a roller coaster. So they really have more effect on your day-to-day judgement than many other substances. And with any addiction, you're either high/drunk or craving the substance -- neither state is conducive to rational thinking.
Add to that the fact that every adult around him was probably in a state of denial, if not of his drug use but certainly the extent of it -- somebody should have thrown him in a limo and dropped him off at Dr. Drew's, but they didn't
Enter the doctor, the one person who was mandated by law to look out for his health, the one person who should have known the extent of his drug abuse, and the only person who could have administered the propofol (which, by the way, he did without any safeguards although he would have known they were necessary).
So...is a bartender allowed to serve another drink to somebody who is obviously way over their limit, even if they're being offered a huge tip? No. Why would we expect any less self-control from a doctor?
It's not that people don't understand that. It's that a doctor administered this drug to him. That to me makes it a little different. If he had simply taken too many pills and overdosed I would feel differently. A doctor only has so much control over that. This doctor was (most likely) the very person that administered this drug to Michael Jackson. That's why I hold him responsible. Not only that but the 30 minute lag in calling for help when he realized something was wrong. That is very disturbing to me. I don't care who it is, it's just wrong. Doesn't matter to me if it's Michael Jackson or the neighbor down the street that I don't know. It's just wrong. Should he have gotten help for his addiction? Yes. That doesn't give a doctor the right to administer a drug knowing it could kill him and that is totally against his oath and obligation. That's where I draw the line.
The more I hear about this doctor, the more he scares me. He called himself a cardiologist -- he wasn't one. He operated a clinic in Texas which is known as a "pill mill" (a new word in my vocabulary). His partner just had his license reinstated after he was proven to be overprescribing narcotics and had it revoked for 2 or 3 years, during which time MJ's doctor took over his patients.
And nobody, nobody, nobody, would do CPR on a bed.
But since he actually is a trained physician he will be held to a higher standard than another person -- he gave MJ a drug illegally knowing that it could cause death, he gave him the drug even though he didn't have the assistance and equipment required to prevent his death, and he did nothing effect when he knew his patient was in trouble. As a pp said, the Dr. was probably more concerned with covering up his own actions once he knew something was wrong than preventing MJ's death.
IMO, this is criminal behaviour -- no different than a person being hit by an ambulance driver and the driver leaves the victim to die in the street (knowing full well what the outcome will be) -- it doesn't even really matter whether the victim was intoxicated or sober, since the fact is they would not have died had they not been hit. When you really think about it, MJ's life would have been in much better hands with one of us than with that Dr.
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!!!
Gosh is he really dead??? Are we REALLY talking about him like this...
