Is There a Doctor in the House?
February 6th 2008 15:46
The results are in, and again a celebrity is dead from prescription drugs. Heath Ledger has joined Anna Nicole Smith and a very long line of other celebrities in death by overdose. It sounds like another cover-up for the "medical profession" to me.
I've known good doctors who covered up for bad ones in order to keep their mystique of brilliance untainted by malpractice. Now it appears that even coroners are willing to use the term "accidental" to explain deaths caused by prescribed medications. Maybe if doctors were held accountable for over-prescribing heavy-duty drugs for celebrities (and others), the overdose problem would lessen just a bit. Of course, if movie stars, etc. were watched as carefully as say, Rush Limbaugh, they'd get busted for "using" while there's a chance to keep them alive... Probably not likely to happen, though. Most of the celebrities on drugs are protected by the libs/dems and their "privacy" issues are held sacred.
Just curious, though... I wonder how many of the prescriptions were in Ledgers own name? Most, if not all would be my best guess. How many different doctors issued them? Probably several... I rather doubt that his use of more than one doctor was "accidental". It's hard to make appointments and then show up and then lie, accidentally. Finding "doctors" willing to bask in reflected celebrity limelight by keeping them as patients, is probably not very difficult, but hardly "accidental." Opening bottles, putting pills in your mouth and swallowing aren't usually "accidental" either.
I once had a friend who took too many acetaminophen and died. The coroner called it a drug overdose and dismissed it without using the term "accidental". Of course, he wasn't famous.
I've known good doctors who covered up for bad ones in order to keep their mystique of brilliance untainted by malpractice. Now it appears that even coroners are willing to use the term "accidental" to explain deaths caused by prescribed medications. Maybe if doctors were held accountable for over-prescribing heavy-duty drugs for celebrities (and others), the overdose problem would lessen just a bit. Of course, if movie stars, etc. were watched as carefully as say, Rush Limbaugh, they'd get busted for "using" while there's a chance to keep them alive... Probably not likely to happen, though. Most of the celebrities on drugs are protected by the libs/dems and their "privacy" issues are held sacred.
Just curious, though... I wonder how many of the prescriptions were in Ledgers own name? Most, if not all would be my best guess. How many different doctors issued them? Probably several... I rather doubt that his use of more than one doctor was "accidental". It's hard to make appointments and then show up and then lie, accidentally. Finding "doctors" willing to bask in reflected celebrity limelight by keeping them as patients, is probably not very difficult, but hardly "accidental." Opening bottles, putting pills in your mouth and swallowing aren't usually "accidental" either.
I once had a friend who took too many acetaminophen and died. The coroner called it a drug overdose and dismissed it without using the term "accidental". Of course, he wasn't famous.
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Comment by Lester Caudill
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This is not a problem that is just for stars, in this part of the country there is a drug dealer just about every mile apart, and it is prescription drugs that they sell.
They go to the doctors get the prescriptions, and then sell them for about ten bucks a pill. I have heard, hear say that some individuals make thousands a month.
But sad part about it is that the doctors seems to be the biggest drug dealers of all.
Comment by S.L. Bradish