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I just found out they found Michael Jackson's doctor guilty of involuntary man slaughter. I think that was crap. He did not slaughter the god darn man. Yes, he should get a little punishment for prescribing medicines in the wrong environment, but Michael Jackson lusted for that stuff and it was told that he went doctor shopping to find one who would give him the stuff. So if not this doctor, it would have been another. Jackson got on the stuff, and he died. It wasn't forced on him. Don't want to die, don't take the stuff. Simple as that. I wonder where all the other folks who died of drug overdoses in hospitals and whatnot by accident, where their doctors are? I bet if this was not Michael Jackson no one would give a testicle.

Drugs companies are the real drug cartels, and the doctors are the pushers.

You still got to have the person that lusts for it, because if they did not lust for it, (outside of legitimate health care needs) there would be no one to push it to.

I think you have to hold the doctor to a higher standard than the addict.

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You do. But with his money, he either would have : went hunting until he found a doctor with looser morals, or got the junk off the black market. He would have gotten it somehow, and then probably died earlier.

How do you explain how more, and more people are becoming addicted to medication which doctors fail, or do not care to stop prescribing to their patients?

Doctors themselves are creating their own brand of customer base. Hell half the time some doctors out there don't even know what medication they are actually prescribing because all they seem to know is what the pamphlet says.

More, and more doctors are hooking people on drugs than the street corners thugs out there.

I always ask the pharmacist before filling out any medication prescribed to me by any doctor what the it actually is for, and what should I expect from taking this drug. I actually had a mismatch of drugs prescribed to me by the same doctor. If I would have taken both I could have died.

Thankfully there are still a lot of doctors who don't fit into that category you made there. Some accidents happen, for even the best of humans make mistakes. For the ones who do it because they lust for money, and get caught and proven out that they did it, they should get gotten. But a lot of them don't, What I meant for that whole post to say is that there would not be this much furor over a prescription overdose if the dead person was not who it was. Many doctors, unfortunately, get by with providing stuff to patients they do not need. If they go after this particular doctor with such gusto, they should hunt down and go after the others with such gusto. Or leave them alone.

Thankfully there are still a lot of doctors who don't fit into that category you made there.

No kidding, it would be a sad day if it was.

Some accidents happen, for even the best of humans make mistakes. For the ones who do it because they lust for money, and get caught and proven out that they did it, they should get gotten.

True, True.

But a lot of them don't, What I meant for that whole post to say is that there would not be this much furor over a prescription overdose if the dead person was not who it was.

Your totally correct, I fully agree with you.

Many doctors, unfortunately, get by with providing stuff to patients they do not need. If they go after this particular doctor with such gusto, they should hunt down and go after the others with such gusto. Or leave them alone.

Again your right, no argument there but he did get caught which makes all the difference in the world.

Last note: Since he was the doctor of Michael Jackson that in itself doesn't wash away the fact that he knew what he was going was illegal, and unethical, and immoral because he brought that drug into Michael Jackson's home he has to be held responsible. It doesn't matter if Mister Jackson gave himself the fatal dose or not, Mister Jackson may still be alive today (maybe not) if that doctor didn't do what he had done.

It's very different if someone took an overdose of medication a doctor prescribes for their patient while they are at home alone. The real difference here is that the doctor illegally used a drug which is never to be used outside of a hospital.

I know it's easy to say "well if it wasn't him, it would have been someone else" doesn't wash with me, that is the same screwed up way of thinking that some parents think about their children, and drugs, and I have actually heard one particular parent say this to me "I would rather have my children smoke pot at home instead of them doing it on a street corner". I really wanted hit this guy, man I was pissed off about it...how about this "just don't do it". The doctor could have stepped back, and said NO, and then report what happened to the local authorities.

This doctor got off easy in my opinion. He will get out after serving 16 months for good behavior, he most likely will get his license to practice after awhile (depending on which State he wishes to live in), and he will go back to doing what he does best (no real idea what that would be).

I don't smoke pot. Rather would not. Would choose pot over rape or murder.

His reputation may be tarnished so even if he goes back into practice it may be hard for him to build up a patient base again. Or, maybe not, maybe the publicity will make folks flock to him.

I don't smoke pot. Rather would not. Would choose pot over rape or murder.

His reputation may be tarnished so even if he goes back into practice it may be hard for him to build up a patient base again. Or, maybe not, maybe the publicity will make folks flock to him.

If I had to make a choice between those three, I'm with you.

It's hard to say what will eventually happen to him while in prison, who knows maybe he will be hired on as part of the medical team of the prison. Weird things do happen.