Conrad Murray: Truly Off the Wall
This could not get more surreal, or more offensive. Dr. Conrad Murray, under fire and under investigation for the death of Michael Jackson, makes a just-released YouTubevideo thanking his so-called supporters-and never once even acknowledging Jackson’s death, much less expressing his condolences to the family. It was absolutely heartless, sickening and shocking to see and hear this man’s pathetic spiel about how he was afraid to return phone calls or e-mails expressing support for him. Who are these “supporters” anyway? A couple of Houston patients at his pill mill clinic he treated for “free,” while probably milking their insurance companies to the limit?
It does appear that for Dr. Murray, it was all about the money. Apparently about to lose his home in Las Vegas, and having to support the former stripper and the child she had by him a few months ago, he was very eager to get his hands on $150,000 a month that he would have been paid as Michael’s personal physician during the set of London concerts.
Poor, poor Michael. He did not have to die at this juncture, as so many millions of fans around the globe concur. But somehow, he trusted this man with his life. As a human being, as a physician, there is total failure, and no excuses for what happened. Regardless of how strange and disconcerting that Michael Jackson needed an IV drip of an anesthetic to go to sleep at night (why, oh why did he not take Ambien?), Murray’s job was to watch over his star patient while he was “under.” If somehow he was compelled to leave his side to either sleep or make personal phone calls, whichever version of the story you might believe, he needed to make sure there was a trained medical person there on duty, as required.
Having recently gone through the illness of a family member, it’s very easy to hire a skilled nurse-practitioner whose job it is to watch over the patient at all times. So not only did Murray apparently not know what he was doing in administering anesthesia, he was criminally negligent, and then completely incompetent in administering CPR. And who can buy his story that he waited half an hour to call 911 because he didn’t know what the address of the house? I have never heard anything so ridiculous. It was simply an incredibly feeble excuse to try to cover up his responsibility for Michael’s death, which probably did happen hours before that call was made. But I’m wondering why he didn’t take the evidence out of the house, because he probably could’ve gotten away with it.
After watching this video — and I’m not going to post the link — I’m convinced this man is the worst kind of idiot, akin to a drunk driver who kills innocent people, who at the very, very least, should never be allowed to practice medicine again.
