When you tell a junkie no, all he/she is going to do is find someone who will say yes. So at some point or another, it would have happened any way.

yes, my kids pester me too, but as the responsible party I have to say "no".....who in their right mind gives a person anesthetic to sleep? How did this even become habit? It's all very sick.

When was the last time you told a 50 yr old what to do??? and a rich and famous one at that. Get real girlie, he was a washed up singer, a drug addict, and used his name and money to get as many drugs as he could. You take 40 xanax, and let me know if you wake up the next morning !! Don't blame the doctor, even his family did not intervene, of course not , he was their meal ticket. PS--his music stunk too

valerie../.no#1 that dr could not put mj in rehab without micheal agreeing..no#2 there was alot of money involved.micheal was responsible for his own actions.he is the one that should have said no to the drugs...this does not let the dr. off the ball..he just wanted all that money that he was being paid...

Tiwi, that is no excuse! It's like saying,"If I didn't help that bank manager embezzle the money he would have found someone else to help."

If the doctor was indeed getting lots of cash (heard it was $150k monthly) from MJ, i guess it was difficult for this dr to say NO and lose the customer. The healthy participant (the dr) did not use common sense here (negligent?). He made a big mistake and it seems that he will pay for it dearly now. How sad for both.

what you said is true. If one doctor says no they will keep looking until they find one to say yes. In the case of Michael Jackson and other people with substantial welth it is easier to get a physician to do what you ask of them.

Doctors who sell their ethics in this matter have to be held accountable for their actions. If the fear of imprisonment is the only way to do this then so be it.

He was afraid to say NO because mj paid him so much everytime he came in to give medicine. also mj would have just paid another dr. to come in and give it to him and if he couldn't find another dr. fast enough he would have gone to the drug dealers.

I agree with you. I have such a hard time seeing how some people can be so incredibly greedy and morally bankrupt as to believe that this doctor did nothing wrong just because he was seeing a big paycheck. It is disgusting that some people are even saying that $100k or whatever it was that this doctor was getting paid is enough to make anyone reconsider. Uh, no? Some people have pride. Some people do not go through med school to be a glorified drug dealer/enabler. And those who do? Well, they deserve to be punished and they shouldn't have people's lives and health in their hands. OF COURSE HE DID SOMETHING WRONG.

The first rule is "Physician do no harm". So the sad fact that mj, a genius musician, is yet another statistic of how these artists never stop to smell the roses of life and just let their talent take over them. Just like Elvis, Mario Lonza, Judy Garland, to name a few. This is the oldest story.

Apparently some are forgetting (or choosing to forget for their own selfish reasons) that addiction is a disease...ALL of the "doctors" that treated Mr. Jackson by illegally providing him with such potent drugs should be held criminally responsible. They have the training to recognize addiction, yet all they did was feed his for whatever reason - for money, to be close to a superstar, to later blackmail perhaps (it wouldn't surprise me)...if each had simply remembered that as doctors they are expected to aid in healing perhaps Mr. Jackson would not have been a drug addict, let alone dead at 50...all the hatred and acrimony directed at him won't change anything; it simply reveals those spewing it as inhumane and suffering from some sort of mental and emotional ailment themselves...which often leads to addiction of some kind...those of you who are busy judging him and playing God, be careful that you don't end up in his shoes...

It's the same as the obsession with plastic surgery. Money buys whatever it wants. I agree that the doctor should have had integrity and the moral responsibility to say no, even to MJ. The big problem in MJ's life was the hangers on that would do anything to be around him and exploit his fears.

Valerie, you're absolutely right. In this country, a doctor has an oath to uphold; caving in merely to appease a patient who keeps "pestering" for something that the doctor would otherwise not prescribe is irresponsible, intolerable and extremely dangerous (and in this case, LETHAL). Kevorkian saying that "the patient got what he wanted" belies his warped ideology that the patient's wishes should be fulfilled regardless of what the doctor knows is not in his best interest. For the first time, I truly believe that this screwball truly belongs behind bars.

Dear Valerie: Although i am a survivor of chronic pains & believe that because pain is subjective -- pts should have a "say" in the type of program they want to follow. I happen to be blessed w/using time release meds that have never made me "high" but control the pain. My doctor is in a University setting, it's a team approach & I do not get meds on demand. It was, however, something I researched & was proactivly involved in. Many people can not handle meds for pain & they have to find other treatment.

No responsible Dr. would have treated MJ w/such a bizarre request! He also had a past history of being an addict. To treat MJ w/such a risky drug outside a hospital was like preforming an appendectomy in a garage! What's with this "personal" physician shtick? Spoiled stars have a long history of Dr. "feel-goods" & we need to look at that. It is so unethical for doctor to be living with a pt. Inappropriate is a better word. Even a US President does not have a physican at that close range -- he has a WH doctor but there are boundaries built into that. Most of the President's treatment is preformed at Bethesda Military Hospital for best state-of-art non urgent care.

I do agree that MJ seemed to be one very spoiled drug addict skilled at manipulating for drugs. NO EXCUSE FOR A RESPONSIBLE DR. TO RESPOND TO THAT THE WAY MURRAY DID. Those poor children, to see their father being "put to sleep" by his personal Dr. ea. nite & out of it for who knows how long? Dr. Murray also hurt those children! He enabled the father's drug abuse, and therefore contributed to child neglect. MJ may have loved his kids dearly but you can't be a parent by sleeping your life away & doping up 24/7! If only there had been a way of getting him into REHAB long ago!

My prayers are w/those kids & the Jackson family. They were not a typical family, they may have had dysfunction, but they all wanted to see a sober MJ again. It seems the family was hurt by one Dr. Feel Good after another. Dr. Murray hurt so many people. Now patients w/legit pain will be treated with suspician, innocent doctors hassled in witch hunts because we always over-react & yet under-react. We have not found a way to stop the Murrays.

thank you. now the question is, did Dr. Death really say "miles of forethought" or did the reporter just not know any better?

If you hadn't pointed that out, it would have bugged me until I did.

thank you for pointing that out. it was also bothering me.

Thank you, the misquote was really annoying. Seiously, the reporter thought it was "miles?"