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medichopeful
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Oops, I think you read my response the wrong way. I wasn't offended (I thought it was funny
), I just didn't want to be the one to put it up ^_^
medichopeful
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Damn, is that much plastic surgery even healthy?
Nope. I think that might have contributed in some way to his demise :unsure:
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medichopeful
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Many of those commenting on Michael here "for a joke" were not even alive for the first 25 years of his career where he was truly a superstar. Many here are probably not old enough to understand the controversy during the late 90s and part of this decade.
The man was 50 years old with medical problems and the issues that some famous people go through being in the public eye from the age of 5.
He has also been performing about as long as today's U.S. Paramedic has been around which is about 45 years. And as some have said of EMS, it is still a young profession. Michael also should have had a few more years to share his talent in the music profession.
I will still have the memories and music of the Michael I grew up with from 1969 to 1985.
Whatever problems that lead to his early death are over. May he rest in peace and be remembered for his music and humanitatian contributions.
The man was 50 years old with medical problems and the issues that some famous people go through being in the public eye from the age of 5.
He has also been performing about as long as today's U.S. Paramedic has been around which is about 45 years. And as some have said of EMS, it is still a young profession. Michael also should have had a few more years to share his talent in the music profession.
I will still have the memories and music of the Michael I grew up with from 1969 to 1985.
Whatever problems that lead to his early death are over. May he rest in peace and be remembered for his music and humanitatian contributions.
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What did the paramedics say when they arrived at Michael Jackson's house???
"This can't be the King of Pop....He ain't got no rhythm!"
"This can't be the King of Pop....He ain't got no rhythm!"
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Oh... my.. this is so wrong... but so hilarious at the same time :lol:
No, it is just childish behavior of those who are supposed to be part of a medical profession. This is a very public forum and others besides EMT(P)s will be reading which could also include family members. Granted they may already have heard the jokes but it doesn't make it any easier at the time of his death and coming from people who are supposedly part of Emergency Medical Services. The medical forums that are closed to the public don't even allow this juvenile behavior. Some jokes are okay but some should stay behind closed doors and not posted for the public to know how this profession views its patients.
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No, but it still makes you look like a huge dork.
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Would you side a hellava dork?
"Dork" was already my compromise. I was going to say it made him look like a tool, but figured that could be construed as needlessly combative and get me a ban.
medichopeful
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"Dork" was already my compromise. I was going to say it made him look like a tool, but figured that could be construed as needlessly combative and get me a ban.
Fair enough.
I was kidding, btw. I don't really think it makes him look like a dork
B)
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This is why we are joking about him. I wasn't alive back then, and I never followed his career. It's hard to be sentimental when you don't even know the person. The Michael Jackson my generation knows about is a man with a lot of plastic surgery done and involved with a lot of allegations in the court.
And I mean, come on. You're acting like we are going out to the streets and burning his body or something. We're making jokes. In a humor section. What were you expected when you clicked on it? Look through the rest of the humor section, there are plenty of jokes about patients. Why should this change just because he is a famous patient?
How naive some can be is just amazing! When you hit "today's posts" a list of recently commented threads appear. The "humor" section is not always obvious.
The fact that you don't know him but are just joining in with comments about someone you know very little about is even more appalling especially with his death. You don't know your other patients either. Do you make these comments also? Okay, that answer is probably yes as evidenced by some of the threads on this forum. Some know no boundaries when it comes to professionalism and patient care.
Michael was a patient treated by those in EMS.
Imagine his kids wanting to learn more about the people who worked on their father. They have lived in many countries and have probably had a string of private physicians and nurses so the terms EMT and Paramedic may not be that clear. So they do a search and this forum can appear. Imagine what they will think of the people, who they may feel grateful for that they came to their father's assistance, who are making off color jokes and saying good riddance. Granted they may have heard alot of that before but probably not from those who are supposed to be there to help. So now the question they might consider is "did those Paramedics actually try to save their father or did they too hold the same views as those on the EMS forums?" Maybe LA Paramedics just rested their hands on Michael's chest to do pretend CPR. By some of the ignorant statements and attitudes made on a "medical" forum you can cast a bad light on the profession and it doesn't matter what section you want to put it under.
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I started this thread. When I was a young child, I remember having the glove, trying the moonwalk, had the thriller video, and even dressed up as him for Halloween. The dude's a freak. He's brought all of this negative attention to himself with his plastic surgeries, the whole neverland ranch thing, not consummating the Lisa Marie marriage, dangling his baby over a ledge, the sleeping with children in his bed comment, and such. If he wasn't such a freak, there wouldn't be so many jokes directed toward him, and there wouldn't be so much attention given to him, either. I don't see any Farrah Fawcett jokes, other than the one in the OP, and that was directed at MJ anyway.
Her career was well over before most of these forum members were alive. There probably are not that many that remember her except for a woman in her 60s and not the poster from the 70s.
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quite in the same way, michael jackson's career was not really blossoming to say the least when members my age can remember. so why the double standard?
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