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Jackson's Doctor Faces Questions
Police say they will question Michael Jackson’s cardiologist about whether drugs were to blame for the star’s death, after 911 tapes released Friday afternoon revealed the doctor was present at the time of Jackson’s collapse. Dr. Conrad Murray, who briefly disappeared Thursday after the singer was pronounced dead, was hired months ago to treat Jackson ahead of his upcoming tour. Investigators later briefly interviewed Murray and towed a car registered to Murray’s sister near Jackson’s home in the hopes that it may contain medication or other clues. LAPD Officer Robert French stressed that Murray is not the target of a criminal investigation, but said he may provide important information before Jackson’s toxicology results are returned. Jackson’s addiction to prescription drugs has led to suspicions about whether they were to blame for his untimely death.
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Okay, I read the magic words "not the target of a criminal investigation".
Translation = Dr. Feelgood will be indicted in 2 months......
yeah and I heard he was a person of interest earlier today! LOL He is deep doodoo for real!
So , you have a doctor with you when you collapse, and you die anyway..........not much of a doctor.
Not necessarily so... you can just imagine what Jacko was sucking down. He may have been so strung out that nothing could of been done for him.
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I don't know where you come up with this stuff but I've been laughing all morning!
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Hawnzz is right, I enjoy your snarky too. We all need giggles. You give em. Thanks for sharing the talent with us.
Actually, MJ refused the doc, but requested the doc's 13 yr. old son
That's good!
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The doc was enabling too, giving him drugs. We will learn in the coming days that the doc was a hanger on too. Jackson wanted him. Not the concert promoters. And the doc had big financial problems in his practice. And he may have been incompetent. Giving him CPR on a bed, instead of the floor. Not having a defibrillator on hand in what is now almost a routine first aid tool, especially since the doc was a cardiac guy. After all, Jackson was 50 years old and a drug addict. What a sad story. Jackson was a brilliant talent in his prime. I loved him.
I thimk MJ looked grotesque at the end, he didn't look like the old MJ, I wonder if he went to a lake and picked his doctors by the loudest they could quack?
His plastic surgeons, if you can judge them by their work, didn't do a great job either.
I wouldn't say being 50 is in your prime, but most people I know in their 50's don't look near as sick as MJ looked. Sure they are getting a little greyer, and some are getting chubbier, but they don't look like they are at death's door.
I think MJ has looked grotesque for at least the last decade
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Say........How come the flags are not being flown at half mast..........Michael wore a uniform. sniff sniff
Absolutely crucial to properly administering CPR would be mouth-to-mouth breaths coupled with cycles of 30 chest compressions---until a rescue team arrives with a defibrillator and oxygen and the capacity to intubate.
So, here are my questions...
If this physician WITNESSED Jackson's collapse (saw him lose consciousness), did he immediately administer CPR (breaths into the mouth; along with chest compressions)? Or did he, as the 911 call seems to suggest, just stand at Jackson's bedside and call for 911?
Where I live, there is no legal "duty" to perform CPR --unless you're a medical professional in a hospital setting. I wonder if this is true in California. If so, perhaps there would be no legal repercussions for this physician who seems to have only stood at Jackson's bedside while some poor schmuck made the 911 call.
Merely performing chest compressions, in this circumstance, wouldn't do much to contribute to a good outcome.
So a doctor could fulfill his "legal" obligation, in this context, I suppose, while standing aside and allowing someone do go without vital oxygenation.
My listening of this 911 call really disturbed me. I got the distinct sense that this "physician" at the beside--the one who witnessed the collapse-- was unwilling to put his mouth on Michael Jackson's. He was only willing to push on his chest in some futile attempt to revive him from a narcotic overdose.
Hope I misconstrued this whole scenario.
If that proves to be the case: shame on that "doctor." He was complicit in this death.
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charles
depends on what the "shot of something" was
Some overdoses are more amenable to quick rescue than others.
Even if Judy, or Michael, had been "frail," there's a lot wiggle room with respect to how either of them might've faired with a quick and proper intervention.
If it turns out to be true that Jackson died as a result of narcotic overdose, the very least that a bedside doc should have done is to administer good CPR--especially if that doctor SAW the person collapse. That might have gone a long way toward allowing Jackson to wake up with viable brain tissue after he got to the hospital for treatment.
The likely mechanism of death in a narcotic overdose would be:
1)receiving/ingesting a large enough dose of narcotic to suppress breathing
2)lack of breathing causes lack of oxygen to the body (including the heart muscle)
3)lack of oxygen to heart muscle=heart beat stopping (cardiac arrest)
4)at the point that the heart stops beating, NO oxygen is pumped anywhere in the body. So tissue begins to die from oxygen starvation.
Your brain can only survive without oxygen (in a way that'll let you be something other than a vegetable, that is) for maybe 5 minutes. So that's why it was painful to listen to the 911 call-all the while knowing that precious brain and heart tissue was dying-- while the details of where the ambulance should arrive were being sorted out.
There are many famous people with the name Jackson. The most famous one was Michael Jackson. He should be honored by replacing ancient Andrew Jackson on the twenty dollar bill. Michael was not perfect but either was Andrew who owned slaves.
Thank you.
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