Propofol Killed Michael Jackson; Death Reportedly Ruled a Homicide

The doctor should have known this cocktail was going to do great harm. The first rule in any kind of medical practice is "do no harm." Even if he's found to have done nothing wrong legally (which I doubt he will be) he committed a major ethical breach. If nothing else he needs his license pulled. I know I wouldn't trust my dog to a doctor who would do something like this.
 
If he was involved in the death of anyone where he neglected his duty as a doctor to protect his patient from harm and knowingly gave him medication that would harm him (And look at what he was given. Any idiot would know it's dangerous.) then I would fully support him going to jail. Whether it be the most deplorable human in the world or myself, or even you.
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Yes, but that is not the normal legal punishment for that unless you're talking completely egregious and more or less intentional malfeasance (which this case demonstrates neither, although it is pretty brazenly stupid, I will give you that much). So why should this doctor be punished more harshly than the average doctor who kills someone through boneheaded stupidity (which exactly what your demands for prison time are).
 
The doctor should have known this cocktail was going to do great harm.
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Point taken, but chances are he had done it multiple times before and not had a fatal outcome. The old saying about "Relying on experience alone simply means you make the same mistakes over and over with an ever increasing level of confidence" probably played major role in his poor decision making regarding poly-pharmacy in this case.
 
Drug addiction/drug-seeking behavior killed Michael Jackson. The greedy/fame-seeking physicans enabled him and fed his addictions.

Humans are evil creatures.
 
JonTullos said:
The doctor should have known this cocktail was going to do great harm. The first rule in any kind of medical practice is "do no harm." Even if he's found to have done nothing wrong legally (which I doubt he will be) he committed a major ethical breach. If nothing else he needs his license pulled. I know I wouldn't trust my dog to a doctor who would do something like this.
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I disagree with your entire post. Read this:
http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/2009/08/lethal-doses-of-propofol-found-in.html

written by a board certified internal medicine doctor.
 
That darned propofol, killing again and again...

Just like for every horrible plastic surgery job, there's a doctor (or SOMEONE) administering the drug that kills in cases like this who is not following the guidelines because "they know better".
That or he was driven mad by listening to "Smooth Criminal" for an hour stuck in an elevator.
 
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