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gorgeoushair -> RE: Conrad Murray Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter (11/8/2011 4:17:12 AM)
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To OP:
Conrad Murray had the legal duty here, despite what Michael Jackson may or may not have done, period. Micheal Jackson had no duty running to Conrad Murray. Murray was ethically and legally required to look out for his one and only patient, Micheal Jackson. Thankfully, in this country, juries are the factfinders and found Murray to be a killer. There was ample evidence, beyond any reasonable doubt, if even only from Murray's taking Propofol out of a hospital setting where there is emergency equipment into a dangerous, unmonitored bedroom setting where he administered the drug to his paitent (which, by the way, no one had ever heard before having been done). Next, Murray abandoned his patient, whom he'd sedated with drug coctails including Propofol, which requires constant visual monitoring. Finally (although there were many more facts proving guilt), Murray, monstrous coward that he is, failed to tell medics and emergency personnel -- who might have been able to save Michael Jackson -- that he had administered Propofol. That's a doctor who is putting his patient first-- fulfilling his ethical and legal duties? Even the defense doctor witnesses said they'd never take this kind of "job" that Murray took, to supply Jackson with the drugs he may have wanted for a price. Murray should have said "no" from day one and if he honestly wanted to help Jackson get off drugs (versus his patently transparent claim that he was weaning Jackson off), he should have put together an expert team, stat. Hopefully, this verdict will put a serious damper on those alleged Hollywood doctors who, for a price, or fame, or whatever, gladly let their patients dictate their drug intake, instead of the other way around. BTW, I have known several addicts and know how manipulative they can be. Doesn't matter. Doctors have the clear duty to say, "no," and either turn the addict away, and/or help the addict get the proper help. Not sayin' it's easy, just the way it should ethically and legally be done.
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