As director of Texas Medical Board Watch, it has been my experience that what the Texas Medical Board tells the public about the law is not necessarily factual. Why not demand that the Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott rule as to whether or not the public is entitled to information about the doctor who attended Michael Jackson's death? As it is, the Texas Medical Board is accountable to no one, although several committees in the legislature have the dubious honor of "having oversight".
I suspect that the use of a powerful narcotic (like propofol), capable of causing a respiratory arrest, outside a hospital setting, is a felony. Presumably, giving a drug IV which caused a respiratory arrest resulting in someone's death, is a felony.
In addition to the Texas Medical Board, Texas and US authorities with jurisdiction include:
1. Texas Department of Public Safety narcotics division
2. United States Drug Enforcement Agency
3. Federal Bureau of Investigation
4. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott
5. US Attorney General Eric Holder
6. The Harris County District Attorney
7. Travis County District Attorney Special Prosecutions Division
8. Every appointed Texas Medical Board member is guilty of "misprision of a felony" because he or she has not reported this crime to a proper authority who is taking appropriate action.
9. Every committee member of the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee and the Texas House Committee on Public Health is guilty of "misprision of a felony" because he or she has not reported this crime to a proper authority who is taking appropriate action.
10. Any Texas or federal court with higher jurisdiction than Harris County or Travis County can issue a Writ of Mandamus ordering an investigation consistent with the law and seriousness of the offense.
11. Texas Governor Rick Perry apparently really is immune to the consequences which should be due him as the chief executive over such a corrupt state as Texas. Where else could the doctor responsible for Michael Jackson's death live and practice medicine without so much as having a file opened on him?
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Media darling Jack Kevorkian whacked 117 people and by
ReplyDeletesome miracle of prosecutorial nonfeasance, managed 116 acquittals, before finally getting sent to the joint for the murder of patient Thomas Youk.
Many of these patients were not terminally ill...they simply feared that they might become terminally ill, and be denied access to adequate pain care. Big Insurance's big bucks definitely preferred suicide to hospice care.
Texas' pioneering Intractable Pain Act is sabotaged daily by attacks on pain doctors. I cannot help but wonder about Jackson's death as a celebrity assisted suicide, intended to start a death fad that makes Big Insurance some big money. Jackson was not receiving a titration-to-effect with morphine or OxyContin, which is what legitimate pain doctors do for intractable pain. He was given a poison that stops breathing. The only time that this poison is used as a medicine, is when a surgeon carves into muscle and needs that muscle to have no reflexes at all...in which case, ordinarily, an anaesthesiologist first inserts a breathing tube in the patient's throat, and a breathing machine under the anaesthesiologist's control, is attached to the tube. The machine breathes for the patient while the surgery is done, and when the drug wears off, hours later, the tube is removed. What was done to Mr Jackson was homicide or suicide, plain and simple. Administering a substance that stops breathing, is not pain control.
As Jack Kevorkian observed about the sick, "When the sick die, the health of society is increased".
Nobody was asking the key question about Jack Kevorkian's corporate backers: When the sick die swiftly and with litte treatment, does this not increase the wealth of Big Insurance, even more certainly than it affects the average health of society? After all, Blue Cross goes on charging the same premiums but spends a lot less on an assisted suicide than it might spend on compassionate pain care for someone's natural lifespan.
Did Michael Jackson die in Texas?
ReplyDeleteGerard Beloin