JAHI MCMATH: Medical "Guinea Pig" For New Sleep Apnea Device Minus Parental Consent?? (Research Funding For Hospitals)

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JAHI MCMATH: MEDICAL "GUINEA PIG" FOR THE GOV'T & HOSPITAL MEDICAL RESEARCH FUNDS??


Was JAHI MCMATH being used by OAKLAND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL as a Human "Guinea Pig" to test a new SLEEP APNEA Device for the Gov't without Parental Consent???

This new Device must be Surgically-Implanted near the Heart.

It's a well-known fact that Hospitals do receive FEDERAL FUNDS for Medical Research.

So JAHI MCMATH was selected as the perfect "Candidate" aka "Medical Guinea Pig" for this new Surgically-Implanted SLEEP APNEA Device.

However apparently something went terribly WRONG.

Since this is a new Medical Device, it may have been Implanted Incorrectly.

Or......

JAHI MCMATH may have Suffered Adverse Side Effects from the Implanted Device.

Of course my analysis is purely Hypothetical, but as it relates to Medical Research for BIG BUCK$$$, Hospitals have a history of such acts.

Perhaps this explains why OAKLAND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Officials were trying to Murder JAHI to hide/ cover-up EVIDENCE.

Thank GOD for Caring, PRAYING People who wanted to see her LIVE & Not Die.

Please continue to PRAY for JAHI.





ARTICLE: "Study Bolsters New Sleep Apnea Device"

A possible alternative for people who can't tolerate the traditional CPAP

A surgical implant to treat obstructive sleep apnea reduced major symptoms of the disorder by nearly 70%, according to a study published online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The new device stimulates a nerve at the base of the tongue, opening the airway. It is one of several new technologies being developed for sleep apnea, a disorder in which people stop breathing during sleep.

Sleep apnea already has a very effective treatment, CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure.

But studies show that anywhere from 30% to more than one half of patients can't or won't use CPAP as directed by their doctors.

Some patients complain that CPAP machines, which deliver pressurized air through a face mask, are uncomfortable and unwieldy.

Sleep apnea, which is characterized by loud snoring and daytime sleepiness, is linked to a host of serious health problems, including an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and stroke.

The new implants will "be for a subset of patients, not for all patients," says M. Safwan Badr, president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and chief of the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, who was involved with the study.

Indeed, earlier studies with the implant showed that it didn't work as well in patients who were very obese or who had certain kinds of soft-palate collapse.

The current study excluded people with certain health conditions, a body mass index of more than 32 and particular types of airway collapse.

In the new study, 126 people with moderate to severe sleep apnea who had tried CPAP but couldn't tolerate it had the new device surgically implanted and were followed for 12 months.

The participants underwent overnight sleep studies before implantation and then again at two, six and 12 months.

After treatment, the number of times they stopped breathing, either completely or partially during sleep, was reduced by 68%, to nine times per hour, down from 29.3 times per hour.

Also, the number of times their blood-oxygen levels fell significantly, the so-called oxygen-saturation index, was reduced by 70% to 7.4 times per hour from 25.4 times per hour.

Two patients had to have a repeat procedure because of pain at the implantation site.

Other side effects included muscle soreness, temporary tongue weakness and tongue abrasions.

The study was funded by the device's manufacturer, Inspire Medical Systems Inc. of Maple Grove, Minn. Inspire's device is approved in Europe; the company is applying for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.

"Some patients we encounter, despite our best efforts, we cannot get them comfortable with [CPAP] therapy," said Patrick J. Strollo, professor of medicine and clinical and translational science at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and lead author of the study.

The new implantable device "has the promise that we really have another option to treat patients."

About 18 million Americans have sleep apnea, according to the National Sleep Foundation, a nonprofit research and advocacy group.

The new device is placed under the skin of the chest.

One electrical lead extends up the neck and encircles the hypoglossal nerve, which runs beneath the base of the tongue.

The other lead extends to the middle of the chest, where a sensor detects breathing.

The patient turns the device on with a remote control when ready for bed and turns it off upon waking.

During sleep, the device electrically stimulates the hypoglossal nerve with each round of breath.

Sources: AP, KRON, Wall Street Journal, Youtube

JAHI MCMATH: JESUS Can Raise Up JAHI Just Like JAIRUS' Daughter (Man Is Not GOD!)

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JAHI MCMATH'S RIGHT TO LIFE:


SCOTUS Justices are Not GOD.

They are only Human Beings created by GOD.


Members of CONGRESS are Not GOD.

They are only Human Beings created by GOD.


Pres OBAMA is Not GOD.

He is only a MAN created by GOD.


The POPE is Not GOD.

He is only a MAN created by GOD.


JEFFREY TOOBIN is Not GOD.

He is only a MAN created by GOD.


SANJAY GUPTA is Not GOD.

He is only a MAN created by GOD.


SAM SINGER is Not GOD.

He is only a MAN created by GOD.


ANDERSON COOPER is Not GOD.

He is only a MAN created by GOD.


DON LEMON is Not GOD.

He is only a MAN created by GOD.


PIERS MORGAN is Not GOD.

He is only a MAN created by GOD.


With GOD All Things Are Possible If You BELIEVE.


Only GOD Can Perform MIRACLES.


Only GOD Can Heal & Raise up JAHI MCMATH.


Only GOD Has The LEGAL & SPIRITUAL Authority To Determine When Human Beings Should DIE Not Man.

JAHI MCMATH DESERVES THE RIGHT TO LIVE & NOT BE MURDERED.



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JESUS CAN RAISE UP JAHI MCMATH THE SAME WAY HE RAISED UP JAIRUS' DAUGHTER

MARK 5:21-43

"A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed"

"Now when Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a great multitude gathered to Him; and He was by the sea.

And behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue came.

His name was JAIRUS.

And when he saw Him, he fell at His feet and begged Him earnestly, saying:

“My little daughter lies at the point of death.

Come and lay Your hands on her, that she may be healed, and she will live.”

So Jesus went with him, and a great multitude followed Him and thronged Him.

Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years,
and had suffered many things from many physicians.

She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse.

When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.

For she said:

“If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.”

Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction.

And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said:

“Who touched My clothes?”

But His disciples said to Him:

“You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”

And He looked around to see her who had done this thing.

But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.

And He said to her:

“Daughter, your faith has made you well.

Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”

While He was still speaking, some came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house who said, “Your daughter is dead.

Why trouble the Teacher any further?”

As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the ruler of the synagogue:

“Do not be afraid; only believe.”

And He permitted no one to follow Him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.

Then He came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and saw a tumult and those who wept and wailed loudly.

When He came in, He said to them, “Why make this commotion and weep?

The child is not dead,
but sleeping.”

And they ridiculed Him.

But when He had put them all outside.

He took the father & the mother of the child, and those who were with Him, and entered where the child was lying.

Then He took the child by the hand......

and said to her, “Talitha, cumi,” which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”

Immediately the girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years of age.

And they were overcome with great amazement.

But He commanded them strictly that no one should know it, and said that something should be given her to eat."


Sources: AP, CNN, Facebook, HLN, TIME, Youtube

TERRI SCHIAVO Foundation Steps Up To Help JAHI MCMATH'S Family.....They Don't Believe JAHI Is Dead Either!!

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The TERRI SCHIAVO Foundation has Courageously stepped up to help JAHI MCMATH & her Family.

TERRI SCHIAVO'S FAMILY IS WORKING TO HELP TRANSFER JAHI AND THEY DO NOT BELIEVE JAHI MCMATH IS DEAD.

Praise GOD!!

Please continue to PRAY.

"Terri Schiavo's Family Joins Family Of Teen Jahi McMath In Fight Over Life Support"


The family of Terri Schiavo has joined the battle over Jahi McMath, a 13-year-old girl on life support who has been declared dead by doctors.

"Together with our team of experts, Terri's Network believes Jahi's case is representative of a very deep problem within the U.S. healthcare system -- particularly those issues surrounding the deaths of patients within the confines of hospital corporations, which have a vested financial interest in discontinuing life," the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network said in a prepared statement.

The organization said it has been overseeing the efforts of several groups to help get Jahi transferred out of Children's Hospital Oakland and brought "to a safe place."

Jahi's family said Tuesday it had found a facility in New York willing to take her. The Oakland hospital "refused to agree to allow us to proceed in that matter," Jahi's uncle Omari Sealey said.

The hospital denied the accusation.

"We have done everything to assist the family of Jahi McMath in their quest to take the deceased body of their daughter to another medical facility," hospital spokesman Sam Singer said.

"To date, they have been unwilling or unable to provide a physician to perform the procedures necessary, transportation, or a facility that would accept a dead person on a ventilator. Our hearts and thoughts go out to them in this tragic situation, but the statements being made by their attorney and some family members are misleading and untrue."

Family attorney Christopher Dolan had accused the hospital of being "hell bent" on ending Jahi's life.

A judge has declared Jahi brain dead as well. Doctors say there's no chance she will come back to life.

Omari Sealey, Jahi's uncle, said Wednesday that the family still hopes to move her to another facility.

He accused the hospital of starving his niece by not using a feeding tube to provide her with nutrients.

Singer said a judge Tuesday had dismissed the family's request for additional medical procedures, including a feeding tube.

A deadline loomed Monday as a judge had said the hospital could disconnect the machines after 5 p.m. (8 p.m. ET). But shortly before Jahi could have been cut off, that same judge extended his order to 5 p.m. (8 p.m. ET) on January 7.

Terri Schiavo died in 2005, nearly two weeks after doctors removed the feeding tube that had sustained her for more than a decade. She was severely brain damaged and became a national focal point in the right-to-die battle.

Her husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo, said she wouldn't have wanted to live in her condition, which Florida courts deemed a "persistent vegetative state." Her parents fought to have her kept alive.

Schiavo's parents, brother and sister created the Life & Hope Network.

The statement Wednesday about Jahi included a quote from Bobby Schindler, Terri Schiavo's brother and executive director of the organization.

"Families and individuals must make themselves aware of what so-called 'brain death' is and what it is not," he said.

"Every person needs to understand that medical accidents happen every day. Families and individuals must be more aware of the issue of accountability and patient rights."

Last month, Jahi had surgery to remove her tonsils, adenoids and extra sinus tissue. Doctors had recommended the surgery to treat pediatric obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that made her stop breathing in her sleep and caused other medical problems.

Before the surgery, Jahi said she was worried that she would never wake up, according to her uncle. She seemed fine after the surgery and asked for a Popsicle because her throat hurt.

It wasn't long before something went terribly wrong. In the intensive care unit, the girl began bleeding profusely -- an image that her mother told CNN would be forever seared in her mind.

According to family members, Jahi went into cardiac arrest.

Days later, she was declared brain dead.

Hospital officials have said privacy laws prevent them from discussing details of the case.

Sources: AP, CNN, Daily Mail

JAHI MCMATH: Oakland Children's Hospital Refuses To Feed Her (Please Keep Praying)

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BAD NEWS BUT KEEP PRAYING.......WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.

JAHI MCMATH IS BEING STARVED TO DEATH BY OAKLAND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OFFICIALS.

The OAKLAND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL is now calling JAHI MCMATH a "Woman".

She is just 13, yet Hospital Officials are calling her a "Woman".

However usually when referring to JAHI, Hospital Officials have labeled her as "THE BODY".

Her Mother says that Hospital Officials are Blocking JAHI'S Family at every turn to prevent them from Transferring her to another Medical Facility.

Hospital Officials have also Refused to continue feeding JAHI via a Feeding Tube i.e. TERRI SCHIAVO.

Both CNN & FOX NEWS appear to be Complicit in helping the Hospital Block JAHI'S Family from helping save this Precious Child whose life still has VALUE.

The same Child whose Body was Butchered by OAKLAND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL and then left for DEAD as if She were an Animal.

Both CNN & FOX NEWS are playing the "Devil's Advocate" behind the scene, while pretending to Report Objectively on JAHI'S Story.

POLITICIANS & other People who want to see JAHI Dead for Monetary reasons and to get her ORGANS......are Super ANGRY at ME for Blogging about JAHI'S story.

Tuesday evening both My regular Blog & My Phone were HACKED!

I detect such HATE & CONTEMPT for JAHI from several POLITICIANS and from the OAKLAND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Officials .

This is an Absolute Shame !!

Please Continue To PRAY & Plead The Blood Of JESUS Over JAHI MCMATH And PRAY That GOD Will Give Her Family FAVOR.

IF JAHI IS MURDERED, GOD WILL NOT FORGET & NEITHER WILL BLACK VOTERS IN 2014 & 2016.

"Jahi McMath’s Mother Claims Hospital Is Starving Supposedly Brain-Dead Daughter"

The mother of a California girl declared brain-dead claims the hospital is starving her daughter while the family fights to keep her on life support.

"To watch my daughter just sit there and not have food ... I'm just so happy that she is kind of a thick girl so she still looks good," Nailah Winkfield told ABC’s "Good Morning America." "I tell her every day, 'Jahi, you losin' weight girl, but you still look good.' I just think it's inhumane to not feed my child, to not refer to her by her name, and stop us in our tracks."

Relatives of 13-year-old Jahi McMath are locked in a legal battle with Children’s Hospital Oakland over the girl’s future. The family’s lawyer says the hospital has blocked their attempts to have feeding and breathing tubes inserted— a crucial step in the family’s quest to transfer the Jahi to a long-term facility.

Hospital officials say McMath is dead, and they can’t operate on a corpse.

"Performing medical procedures on the body of a deceased human being is simply not something Children's Hospital can do or ask its staff to assist in doing," hospital attorney Douglas Straus said.

Jahi went into cardiac arrest on Dec. 9 at the hospital following tonsil surgery to treat sleep apnea.

Children’s Hospital doctors declared her brain-dead three days later, but the girl’s family insists she is still alive.

The family has received support from a New York-based neurological foundation that was sending doctors to California to examine the girl.

Dr. Jonathan Fellus, chief medical officer with the International Brain Research Foundation, said Jahi needs time to heal from the cardiac arrest before doctors can make a definitive conclusion.

“Basically we need the dust to settle,” Fellus told the Daily News on Tuesday.

Winkfield claims her daughter moves at the sound of her parents’ voices and she says the hospital has been insensitive.

"I hate it that they refer to her as just the body or the deceased," Winkfield told ABC’s "Good Morning America." “That is my child that they're talking about.

They don't even use her name."

Children’s Hospital was set to unhook Jahi’s ventilator on Monday, but a court order in the final hours extended the deadline to Jan. 7.

The family has been desperately searching for another facility to take Jahi before time runs out.

KWinkfield’s lawyer, Christopher Dolan, said the New Beginnings Community Center in Medford, N.Y., is a possibility, but Children’s Hospital is making it difficult by denying their attempts to bring in doctors to insert breathing and feeding tubes.

"They're speaking out of both sides of their mouths,” Dolan said. “They say one thing and we go down that road, and then they say something else. The hospital said, 'Bring us a doctor,' and we said, 'Tell us the conditions,' and now, they've wasted a half a day of our time. We don't have much time."

A hospital spokesman said the family hasn’t produced any doctors willing to perform the surgeries.


Sources: AP, Daily Mail, HLN, NY Daily News, Youtube

JAHI MCMATH Is Still Alive! GOD Performed A Miracle!! She Is Being Transferred!! (Please Keep PRAYING)

#JahiMcMath

BREAKING NEWS ABOUT JAHI MCMATH......GOD PERFORMED A MIRACLE TODAY!!

SHE IS STILL ALIVE!!.....A JUDGE GIVES HER FAMILY UNTIL JANUARY 7TH!!

A HOSPITAL IN NEW YORK WILL ACCEPT JAHI MCMATH FOR CONTINUED CARE.



JAHI WAS SUPPOSED TO BE REMOVED FROM LIFE SUPPORT TODAY AT 5:00 PM BUT HER FAMILY FILED AN APPEAL........PLEASE KEEP PRAYING.

ARTICLE: "Brain-Dead Teen To Remain On Life Support Pending Appeal By Family"

With an hour to spare, a judge ordered a stay on the restraining order against the hospital that was scheduled to take the 13-year-old girl rendered brain-dead by elective surgeries in California off life support Monday evening.

Jahi McMath is allowed to remain on life support until Jan. 7, a California judge ruled.

Jahi underwent a tonsillectomy and other operations to alleviate her sleep apnea on Dec. 9. She started bleeding profusely and went into cardiac arrest shortly after.

The young girl’s family has been in a legal battle with Children’s Hospital in Oakland since Doctors at the hospital declared her brain-dead three days later.

The family gained a restraining order preventing doctors from removing Jahi from a ventilator keeping her alive, but Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo revoked the order Tuesday after hearing testimony from an independent physician who also ruled Jahi met “all criteria for brain death," according to NBC Bay Area.

Grillo said Children’s Hospital would have allowance to remove Jahi from life support at 8 p.m. local time Monday (5 p.m. ET) unless the family filed a formal appeal.

The family filed an appeal just before 4 p.m. (7 p.m. ET) on Monday, according to NBC Bay Area.

Omari Sealey, left, uncle of 13-year-old Jahi McMath, and Sandra Chatman, grandmother of McMath speak to members of the media after a court hearing in Oakland, Calif., on Dec. 24.

"We are hopeful that one of these actions will forestall the hospitals rush to extinguish Jahi's chance at life," said Jahi's uncle, Omari Sealey.

Jahi’s parents have insisted that their daughter is alive, regardless of doctors’ opinions that Jahi’s condition is irreversible.

"I would probably need my child's heart to stop to show me that she was dead. Her heart was still beating, so there's still life there," Jahi's mother, Nailah Winfield said Friday, according to the Associated Press.



In efforts to keep Children’s Hospital from removing Jahi from the machine that was supporting her basic life functions, her family tried to move her to other facilities in California, but doctors at both facilities refused to treat someone who had been declared dead.

An unnamed hospital in New York agreed to take the teenager, but only after she underwent more medical procedures, according to the Associated Press.

David Durand, chief of pediatrics at Children's Hospital said administrators did “not believe that performing surgical procedures on the body of a deceased person is an appropriate medical practice.”

On Friday Winfield wrote on a fundraising page, “My family and I are still striving to find a location that will accept her in her current condition … Let us pray that some one (sic) will have the heart to accept her despite what Children's Hospital says. So that we can get her air lifted away from this place as soon as possible.” On Monday, donors had contributed over $25,000 to Jahi’s cause.

NBC Bay area reported that Sealey said that a hospital in New York had agreed to admit Jahi and on Monday, the family was organizing for an air ambulance to transfer the teen across the country.


Sources: AP; CNN; HLN; NBC News; U.S. News

JAHI MCMATH Update: Murdering Jahi McMath Just Like Terri Schiavo (Blog Talk Radio Broadcast)

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BLOG TALK RADIO BROADCAST: "MURDERING JAHI MCMATH JUST LIKE TERRI SCHIAVO"

On this NEW episode of my Blog Talk Radio Broadcast I will discuss the pending situation of a Life & Death crisis surrounding JAHI MCMATH, a 13-year-old BLACK Girl from OAKLAND, CA.

She is to be removed from LIFE SUPPORT today at 5:00pm.

(PLEASE KEEP PRAYING!)

I will also discuss how JAHI'S current situation somewhat mirrors that of a Young, WHITE Woman named TERRI SCHIAVO back in 2005 by her Husband in the State of FLORIDA, when he had her removed from LIFE SUPPORT for Life Insurance MONEY!

On Dec 2, 2013 JAHI was admitted to the OAKLAND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL for a Tonsillectomy i.e, a routine Surgery involving very low Risk.

However during the procedure JAHI mysteriously went into CARDIAC ARREST.

According to Hospital Officials JAHI begin to spit up Blood during the procedure.

I'm Not a Physician but how did this occur?

Prior to going on the Operating Table, JAHI'S Doctors had full knowledge of her Medical History, so how did this occur?

Did she receive too much Anesthesia or too little Oxygen?

Was She Operated on by a Medical Student who cut the Wrong Artery in ERROR??

i.e., GROSS NEGLIGENCE and MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

Was this so-called CARDIAC ARREST planned as a way of STEALING her ORGANS?

(ORGAN Harvesting is Big Busine$$ in the U.S.)

Immediately after JAHI went into CARDIAC ARREST, Hospital Officials wanted to take this precious Child off LIFE SUPPORT.

In fact they had the OAKLAND CORONER'S OFFICE lined up to take her body away ASAP.

But JAHI'S Parents who are Born Again CHRISTIANS (like Myself) Refused to accept LIES told them by Hospital Officials & they Refused to remove JAHI off LIFE SUPPORT.

Legal Action was filed and a JUDGE (most likely schooled by Gov JERRY BROWN) declared JAHI to be legally "BRAIN DEAD".

JAHI MCMATH is NOT Dead, nor is She is DECEASED but the Politicians....Media.....and Hospital Officials have declared her as Dead.

Hospital Officials & Politicians are even fighting to prevent JAHI from being Transferred to another Medical Facility.

Why??

POLITICS...... MONEY & JAHI'S ORGANS!

If POLITICIANS and OAKLAND CHILDREN HOSPITAL Officials proceed with their devious Plans to Murder JAHI MCMATH, they will face the Judgement of GOD Almighty & the Lord JESUS CHRIST before they leave this Earth.

GOD Himself Will Judge Them NOT The POPE!

Because the POPE is Not GOD, nor is he JESUS CHRIST!

"Jahi McMath's Family Searches For Options As Life-Support Cut-Off Looms"


While many people get their New Year's countdown clocks ready, Jahi McMath's family is scrambling as a darker deadline looms.

A judge's ruling will allow a hospital to disconnect life support machines at 5 p.m. Monday from the 13-year-old girl, whom doctors declared brain dead after she suffered complications from tonsil surgery earlier this month. Jahi's family, who wants to transfer her somewhere else, told CNN affiliate KGO that they spent Sunday working the phones, trying to line up another option.

The case has drawn national attention and sparked protests from some local leaders who say the hospital that treated her should have provided better care.

Medical ethicists, meanwhile, say the high-profile case fuels a misperception: that "brain death" is somehow not as final as cardiac death, even though, by definition, it is. The case is "giving the impression that dead people can come back to life," Arthur Caplan, director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, told CNN last week.

But Jahi's family members maintain that they're hoping for a miracle and want to transfer the girl from Children's Hospital Oakland to another facility. A statement released by family members Saturday and provided to KGO says they are weighing several options.

"Our attorney is in discussions with two facilities that have expressed preliminary approval for accepting Jahi on a ventilator," the statement said. "One is in Southern California, the other is in New York."

Doug Straus, an attorney representing Children's Hospital Oakland, said in a letter to the family's lawyer Sunday that officials are still awaiting specifics from the family.

"To date, there has been no communication from any facility named by you regarding a transfer or requirements for transfer with any of the medical professionals at Children's. The family has not identified any facility with which Children's can have this dialogue.

Nor have we been provided with a transportation plan or coroner authorization," he wrote. "As your email and your statements about the facility in the Los Angeles area acknowledge, discussion about performing medical procedures upon a dead body presents unusual and complicated questions. Until there is a definite commitment by a facility to accept Jahi's body upon specified terms, I don't think I can tackle those issues. Please let me know if the family is able to identify a facility."

Jahi was declared brain dead by doctors at the hospital on December 12, three days after tonsil surgery.

Family members and hospital officials fought over her future in court. Last week, a judge ruled she was brain dead and urged both sides to work together to resolves the situation.

But the sparring showed no sign of slowing over the weekend, with family members sharply criticizing the hospital's handling of the matter.

"We wish to acknowledge that Jahi's case, and our stance regarding her right to life, and her mother's right to make decisions regarding her child, has stirred a vibrant, sometimes polarizing, national debate. This was never our intention," the family's statement said. "We have our strong religious convictions and set of beliefs and we believe that, in this country, a parent has the right to make decisions concerning the existence of their child: not a doctor who looks only at lines on a paper, or reads the cold black and white words on a law that says 'brain dead' and definitely not a doctor who runs the facility that caused the brain death in the first place."

The hospital's statement Sunday said they were supporting Jahi's family.

"We continue to do so despite their lawyer's criticizing the very hospital that all along has been working hard to be accommodating to this grieving family," the hospital said.


Sources: Blog Talk Radio; CNN, HLN, KTVU

Carolinas Medical Center Makes Executive Changes, Prepares For Huge Lawsuit

Executive Changes On The Way At Carolinas Health Care System, After Kenneth Chapman's Death


Carolinas HealthCare System has announced several executive team changes, effective May 10.

Phyllis Wingate-Jones, president of Carolinas Medical Center-Mercy, has been promoted to division president of CMC-NorthEast in Concord. In the new position, she will also be responsible for operations at CMC-University.

Spencer Lilly, president of CMC-University, will move to CMC-Mercy as president.

Martha Whitecotton, administrator of Levine Children’s Hospital, has been named president of that facility.

Laura Thomas, who has been administrator at CMC-Randolph, the county’s behavioral health center, will become its president and will report to Wingate-Jones.

Curtis Copenhaver, who has been interim president of CMC-NorthEast, will serve as interim president of CMC-University while a replacement is found for Lilly.

Dr. Brent Lambert will become vice president and chief medical information officer, a new position .

Wingate-Jones joined CHS eight years ago as chief operating officer of Carolinas Medical Center and has served as president of CMC-Mercy for the past three years.

Lilly has had a long career within CHS, serving for 16 years as president of CMC-University.

Thomas came to CHS in 1994 and has directed the behavioral health division since then.

Whitecotton has also served in a number of positions at CHS, starting as a staff nurse. Levine Children’s Hospital opened under her direction in 2007.

Copenhaver previously served as president of CMC-Mercy and Carolinas Rehabilitation.

Lambert comes to CHS from Carilion Clinic, an eight-hospital system headquartered in Roanoke, Va., where he was vice president of medical informatics.









Carolinas Medical Center Faces Possible Negligence Lawsuit (Kenneth Jermaine Chapman)


According to North Carolina General Statute Chapter § 122C-55 Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Act of 1985...

Carolinas Medical Center staff had a Legal Duty to cooperate and warn other coordinating agencies about Kenneth Jermaine Chapman's reports of desiring to harm himself and others, however they INTENTIONALLY didn't.

In addition as illustrated in U.S. Supreme Court case Columbia Medical Center of Las Colinas v Bush, 122 S.W. 3d 835 (Tex. 2003), "following orders" may not protect Nurses and other Non-Physicians from Liability when committing Negligent acts.

Relying on Vicarious Liability or Direct Corporate Negligence, claims may also be brought against hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations or medical corporations for the mistakes of their employees.

Doesn't this all amount to a clear case of Medical Malpractice and GROSS Negligence?

Uh-oh! I believe it does.

I smell a FAT lawsuit brewing with a HUGE settlement for Kenneth Jermaine Chapman's surviving relatives, especially his Child and Mother.

Ching! Ching!

To Kenneth Jermaine Chapman's surviving relatives I suggest you hire a New York Lawyer who is also licensed to practice in North Carolina, than SUE Carolinas Health Care System/ Carolinas Medical Center and Charlotte-Mecklenburg County for Medical Malpractice, Gross Negligence, Mental Distress & Racial Discrimination!

Charlotte I guess it doesn't pay to continue practicing Racial Discrimination.

I told you Charlotte-Mecklenburg is an Extremely Racist region with "Leaders" who don't know what the heck they are doing.

Check out the articles below and learn what Licensed Psychiatrists from across the country had to say about how CMC staff bungled Chapman's care.






CMC Psychiatrists Claim More Help Was In order Before Chapman Family Killings


Kenneth Jermaine Chapman should have been hospitalized when he showed up at a local emergency room saying he wanted to kill his wife and displaying obvious signs of mental illness, four psychiatrists told the Observer.

Psychiatrists from around the country say they probably would have hospitalized Chapman - even against his will - if they had been called on to treat him.

Chapman twice sought help at CMC-Randolph, once in February and once on March 16 - the same day he killed his wife and two of his children.

Chapman told CMC Clinicians at the Billingsley Road psychiatric hospital that he had access to firearms and wanted to kill his wife, according to records obtained by the Observer.

He later backed away from his threat, saying he would not hurt his wife, Nateesha. But he also told staff he was hallucinating, had a history of alcohol abuse and depression, and had a volatile relationship with his wife.

Both times, CMC Clinicians released Chapman from the emergency room within hours, giving him prescriptions and instructions to call back for an appointment.

CMC Records show no attempt to hospitalize him.

"There's no question" that Chapman should have been hospitalized, says Dr. Janet Taylor, a New York psychiatrist and former clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harlem Hospital. "He's definitely a danger to himself and others."

Officials at Carolinas Medical Center, which runs the Psychiatric hospital for the county under a $16 million contract, say confidentiality laws prohibit them from discussing Chapman's case.

But hospital officials are reviewing how staff at CMC-Randolph handled Chapman's treatment.

The 33-year-old Fed-Ex package handler ultimately killed himself, two weeks after the initial killings.

Chapman's mother, Ruby Cosby, says she's outraged that her son was allowed to leave the hospital when he needed help.

"I lost my son and granddaughter, and other lives were taken because the hospital was Negligent," she says.

"That Negligence cost a lot of lives. What do you have to do or say before anyone pays attention to you crying out?"

Psychiatrists nationally say the decision about hospitalization hinges on whether they believe a patient is dangerous to himself or others. They use a variety of tools to evaluate the risk - including interviews and observation of the patient, consultation with family, and a review of patient medical and behavioral history.

But doctors say they can't be certain who will turn violent, and the decision is ultimately a judgment call.

Five psychiatrists interviewed by the Observer said they couldn't determine whether Chapman should have been hospitalized because they didn't personally evaluate him.

But four other Psychiatrists, recommended by professional associations and well-known medical schools, agreed they would have hospitalized Chapman, based on a detailed description of his hospital visits.

The Doctors did not review Chapman's medical records. And, to avoid influencing their answers, the Observer didn't mention Chapman's eventual killings until they had offered opinions.

The four Psychiatrists agreed that the toxic combination of risks in Chapman's case - Depression, Alcohol Abuse, Threats of Violence and Access to guns - suggested a need for immediate Intervention.

"If the person is depressed, angry with his wife and wanting to kill her, and has access to firearms, I'd certainly be inclined to hospitalize," said Dr. Bernadette Cullen, director of the Johns Hopkins Community Psychiatry Program.

It's not unusual for patients to threaten suicide, psychiatrists say, but explicit homicidal threats are rare and always get their attention.

Dr. Anil Godbole, chairman of Psychiatry at Chicago's Advocate Illinois Medical Center, says patients threaten homicide two or three times a month at his psychiatric emergency department, which sees about 250 patients monthly.

Godbole, who served on President George W. Bush's Commission on Mental Health, said if a patient like Chapman refused to enter the hospital voluntarily, "I would insist ... if he likes it or doesn't like it."

Growing calls for help

Like other mental health facilities in North Carolina, Charlotte's Psychiatric hospital is under stress. With calls and visits steadily climbing, the hospital's 44-bed adult inpatient unit has been above capacity for more than a year.

It's unclear whether any beds were available on March 16. CMC couldn't provide a daily patient count last week. But the occupancy rate for March overall was 105 percent.

Area Mental Health Director Grayce Crockett won't discuss Chapman's treatment. Her department manages the county's mental health care providers, including CMC-Randolph, although the hospital has its own leadership team.

Crockett says even when all of the hospital beds are filled, patient care isn't compromised. If a patient needs to be admitted, she has said, the hospital can transfer him to the state Psychiatric facility in Morganton.

CMC also can send patients to the psychiatric units of general hospitals.

But experts nationally say psychiatrists may hesitate to order an admission if a hospital's beds are full.

"It undoubtedly casts a shadow on the decision-making," says Dr. William Sledge, medical director of the Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital.

The number of psychiatric beds nationally has declined, experts say, and insurance companies increasingly refuse to cover inpatient care except in the most severe cases.

Chapman first went to CMC-Randolph's emergency room on Feb. 28. During the two-hour evaluation, he told clinicians he had been fighting with his wife and thinking about harming her, records show. It was a "chronically volatile" relationship with "verbal and physical conflicts," a doctor wrote. He was previously treated for depression, and had a history of alcohol abuse.

He also had guns.

But Chapman later told staff he wouldn't hurt anyone. Clinicians sent him home with a prescription for medication to treat anxiety and depression. Those medications probably would have taken effect on Chapman within a few days or weeks, psychiatrists say.

Two weeks later, on the morning of March 16, Chapman again appeared at the emergency room.

He had a shouting match with his wife, and he told staff he wanted to kill her, records show. He also reported seeing "shadows of people every day." But later in the visit, Chapman told a nurse and a doctor he wouldn't harm anyone.

A doctor thought Chapman had a "Depressive Disorder" and increased the dosage of Anti-Anxiety medication, records show.

The hospital released Chapman around 6 a.m.

Later that day, police say, Chapman suffocated his wife and 1-year-old daughter and fatally stabbed his 13-year-old stepdaughter.

He spent the next two weeks living in his south Charlotte home with his two surviving children, ages 10 and 2 - while the bodies of his two dead daughters were locked in a bedroom.

When police came to Chapman's home on March 29, they say he shot at them and then took his own life.

'Recipe for disaster'

Under N.C. law, doctors can involuntarily commit mentally ill patients they judge to be a threat to themselves or others.

Chapman's professed change of heart about killing his wife would have complicated a doctor's decision on whether to hospitalize him, Psychiatrists say.

Dr. Marvin Swartz, interim chair of Duke University's psychiatry department, says he couldn't judge whether Chapman should have been admitted without evaluating him.

But he says Clinicians may have concluded they had adequately addressed Chapman's problems in the emergency room.

"If you feel you've turned it around during that visit, sometimes you have to take that risk," he says, "because you can't admit them all."

But Taylor, the New York psychiatrist, says she puts more weight on a patient's initial statements because later comments can be influenced by fears of being committed.

"People start getting nervous about what's going to happen, and they change their tune," she says.

S.C. psychiatrist Gariane Gunter called Chapman's risk factors "a recipe for disaster." A resident at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Gunter says she would not have been persuaded by Chapman's later claims that he wouldn't hurt anyone.

"I don't know what else you need to be really scared for his wife," she says.
"He was reaching out".

It's unclear whether hospital staff made any effort to warn Chapman's wife. But the records show no indication that contact was made.

Several of the Psychiatrists interviewed say Clinicians, often by state law, have a duty to warn the targets of such threats. North Carolina has no such law.

Chapman's parents say they wish the hospital had alerted them about their son's troubles. The hospital failed their family, they say.

"He was reaching out," says Chapman's mother, Ruby Cosby, "and they didn't reach back."

The two surviving children are in the custody of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Department of Social Services, temporarily placed with relatives until officials assign the kids a permanent home - or possibly separate homes.

Chapman's 10-year-old daughter keeps in touch with her grandparents with a cell phone the Cosbys gave her when she went to New Jersey for her father's funeral.
Chapman's 2-year-old son doesn't yet understand death, says Chapman's stepfather, James Cosby.

"All he knows is that he misses his mother and father."











Kenneth Jermaine Chapman's Death vs Carolinas Medical Center's Racist System


Carolinas Medical Center/ Carolinas Health Care System has been previously sued on numerous occasions by several African-American families for Racist Medical practices leading to premature, medically preventable deaths.

Many of those lawsuits were quietly settled with families of those Black patients who died due to intentional improper care or NEGLIGENCE.

Such lawsuits and bad reputation is the reason why Carolinas Medical Center/ Carolinas Health Care System now exist instead of Charlotte Memorial Hospital, the old CMC.

Thus its safe to say Carolinas Medical Center and Charlotte Memorial Hospital are one in the same.

How do I know this?

I always do my research and I talk to people personally affected by what I post on my Blog.

People will tell me things they might not disclose to the Charlotte Observer because the Charlotte Observer has a history of practicing Biased reporting and Discrimination in its publication of articles.

Kenneth Jermaine Chapman was an African-American Charlotte citizen who recently killed three members of his family and later himself.

Prior to his destructive actions he desperately sought Mental Health Care assistance from Charlotte's Carolinas Medical Center.

In fact he sent out an S.O.S. which was intentionally ignored.

Mr. Chapman clearly, verbally expressed to CMC Staff he had thoughts of hurting others and killing himself.

Did CMC Staff report his thoughts to Charlotte DSS even though they knew this man had minor children in the home?

NO!

They didn't give a darn because Ken Chapman was Black and wasn't an affluent citizen.

Now if Ken Chapman had connections with an Affluent, Politically-connected Black Charlotte citizen, than of course they may have taken Mr. Chapman's situation more seriously, but because he was just a poor Black man they didn't give a darn!

The result?

A Black Man who killed his wife, two of his children and than later himself.

If you think Jennifer Roberts (board chair) and the other Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Commissioners are seriously concerned about this matter or seriously concerned about investigating Mr. Chapman's case...DON'T BET ON IT!

If you think Charlotte's weak, scared Black Leaders are going to speak up...DON'T BET ON IT!

The only two Charlotte-Meck. County Commissioners who really do care Harold Cogdell Jr. & Vilma Leak (both African-Americans), will be blocked from doing anything constructive by Jennifer Roberts (board chair), "Ms. N.C. Corruption" herself.

This tragic incident helps to further demonstrate how Racism is deeply woven into all facets and levels of Charlotte, NC's community, including the Health Care System.

Charlotte's other main Medical Center, Presbyterian Hospital isn't much better.

Its a private facility where Blacks go in but don't come out.

Presbyterian Hospital also has a long history of Black Patients needlessly dying but that's a story for another day.

As I was saying Carolinas Medical Center's staff intentionally did NOT prevent Mr. Chapman's death, nor did they help protect his family however.....

I'll bet Mr. Chapman's surviving relatives receive a huge bill for his so-called "treatment".

In fact thousands upon thousands of African-Americans within the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Region have Carolinas Medical Center Medical Bills on their Credit Reports.

Many of those bills are decades old.

Many of those bills are due to Billing errors from Carolinas Medical Center.

Many of those bills are due to Carolinas Medical Center INTENTIONALLY overbilling Black patients.

How does Carolinas Medical Center skirt Federal Law as it relates to Medical Bills which are older than 7 years old?

Carolinas Medical Center pays Equifax, Experian and Trans Union Credit Reporting agencies to sell those old Medical bill accounts to Debt Collectors, who create new account numbers for those decades old bills and continue screwing up the Credit Ratings for hundreds of thousands of North Carolina's Black citizens.

Is this really Racism you ask??

Yes!

For White Patients treated by Carolinas Medical Center staff everything is handled entirely different.

White Patients who visit Carolinas Medical Center for treatment receive proper care regardless of their situation and...

They aren't intentionally overcharged, neither are their Credit Reports damaged even if they don't possess Medical Insurance because NOT every White patient has Private Medical Insurance, just like there are many Black patients treated at CMC who DO possess Private Medical Insurance.

I'd say its time for the Federal Gov't including the FTC, to take a look at how Carolinas Medical Center intentionally provides inadequate treatment to its Black patients, how they consistently & intentionally overbill Black patients and how they are paying big bucks to 3 major Credit Reporting agencies (mainly Equifax) for the sole purpose of selling Medical Bill Accounts which are decades old to Debt Collectors.

Just watch the Levine Family, (old Charlotte money and one of Carolinas Medical Center/ Carolinas Health Care System largest contributors), use their big bucks to help defend CMC in any possible lawsuit.

The Levine Family is Charlotte's "Savior".

They often come to Charlotte's aid in a crisis, however ONLY after the crisis occurs.

They run Charlotte's so-called Leaders including Jennifer Roberts and Anthony Foxx.

The Levines are most likely indirectly involved in most of Charlotte's Racist activities being carried out however, because they are super rich everyone is afraid of them.

If Ken Chapman were a White Man residing in Charlotte, NC neither he nor his family members would be dead today.

Or at least his family members would be alive today.

Both Carolinas Medical Center/ Carolinas Health Care System, Charlotte DSS and quite possibly the Levine Family are ALL legally Responsible for the Chapman Family's death stemming from total GROSS NEGLIGENCE.

If I were related to Mr. Chapman's family I would most definitely SUE and demand a Federal Probe be conducted.

Sadly enough Kenneth Jermaine Chapman's relatives are probably uneducated or too afraid of Charlotte's Racist, Unfair systems to take legal action.

Charlotte's Racist, Scared Leaders are aware of this which is why nothing will probably change.


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Trial Lawyers Lobby, Warn Obama: Don't Touch Tort Reform!

Trial Lawyers To Obama: Don’t Deal On Tort Reform In Health Care Neogtiations


President Barack Obama wants a bipartisan deal on health reform, but trial lawyers don’t want him to deal on a top Republican priority: tort reform.

Trial lawyers defeated President George W. Bush’s push for medical liability reform and successfully lobbied to water down tort reform provisions in healthcare reform bills this Congress. But the battle is far from over.

And in an odd twist, a longtime ally of the trial lawyers could be the one to resurrect the idea -- President Barack Obama.

“I would hope this would be an area we just don’t go,” said Linda Lipsen, vice president for public affairs at the American Association for Justice, the trade group for trial attorneys.

Lipsen said. “The last thing Congress should be doing is eliminating people’s rights when the real issue is safety in hospitals.”

Obama’s hints that he is willing to make a deal with Republicans on medical malpractice reform has got physicians and trial lawyers scratching their heads.

As recently as Tuesday, Obama floated the possibility of offering an olive branch to Republicans on malpractice reform as a gesture of bipartisanship. “I've said from the beginning of this debate I'd be willing to work on that,” Obama remarked during a press briefing.

Retiring Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) has recently indicated he is open to a healthcare compromise, stressing the need for malpractice reform to be included.

The White House announced on Friday that it will post a detailed health reform proposal online before the Feb. 25 bipartisan health summit, which Gregg was not invited to. It is unclear if that plan will be Obama’s own proposal or a merged version of the House and Senate-passed bills.

In an interview on Federal News Radio on Friday, Democratic strategist Bob Weiner said Obama should strike a deal on tort reform. He noted that Gail Wilensky, head of the Medicare and Medicaid agency in the first Bush administration, recently said Democrats could have gotten Republican votes if they had compromised on medical liability.

Weiner, who worked in the Clinton White House, said, “Why don’t we give a little on that and put some limit on [caps] and then get all of this national health insurance coverage for people and protect them with it? It’s not that much of a price. That’s part of the sausage-making that I think we could done that actually might have made a difference.”

Although Obama has repeatedly cited medical malpractice reform as a possible area of compromise with the GOP, he has not explained where he sees the middle ground and, indeed, has rejected Republicans’ top priority in this area: the hard-dollar caps on lawsuit awards in malpractice cases long sought by the physician and business lobbies.

But officials from pro- and anti-malpractice reform camps agree that, beyond the modest measures already in the healthcare reform bills that passed Congress and some demonstration projects under way at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Obama has not give a clear indication of what sort of offer he is willing to make.

Asked whether they were aware of any new malpractice reform proposals from the Obama administration, these officials professed they were aware of none.

“I haven’t heard anything like that,” Lipsen said.

“Not that I know of,” said Lisa Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, a proponent of limits on malpractice lawsuit awards.

“We haven’t seen any substantial proposal that supports his rhetoric,” said Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who has been a critic of the Obama administration’s stance on malpractice reform. “We have been waiting for his follow through and that’s what we have yet to see,” Bardella said.

Based on Obama’s oft-stated views on federal policy governing malpractice lawsuits, the trial lawyers likely have little to worry about. “I don’t think he’ll shock the world and come out and embrace caps,” Rickard said.

Obama indicated he could embrace malpractice proposals that “make my party a little bit uncomfortable.” Unlikely though it is that Obama would reverse positions on malpractice lawsuit caps or other proposals, it would not mark the first time he aggravated his liberal allies during the healthcare reform debate.

Despite campaigning against taxation of employer-sponsored health insurance, Obama put himself at odds with unions by endorsing a Senate-passed excise tax on high-cost insurance plans that organized labor and most House Democrats passed. The White House also struck a controversial deal to win the support of the pharmaceutical industry for healthcare reform, frustrating liberals who think Obama went too light on their long-time nemesis.

The House and Senate bills each contain provisions aiming to improve patient safety and offering grants to states that develop alternate ways to resolve disputes over medical errors. Proponents of broader malpractice reforms dismiss these proposals as inadequate while trial lawyers have rejected another possible compromise, the creation of special “health courts” that would hear cases and medical errors and malpractice.

Moving toward the middle on medical malpractice reform is no guarantee of winning GOP support, however. Any concession that Republicans would view as meaningful would prompt an outcry from Democratic lawmakers and the trial bar, a close ally of the party.

“I don’t see that as a credible place to go if the object is to pass the bill,” said Lipsen, noting that legislation to enact malpractice award caps could even not advance through the Republican-controlled Senate several times in the last decade.

Moreover, Republicans have stood so strongly opposed to the Democratic health care bills that even full capitulation on medical malpractice reform would not produce instant bipartisanship, Rickard noted. “There are so many issues that are in dispute in this bill,” she said, “that malpractice reform in and of itself isn’t going to overcome them.”

Sources: The Hill

Jackson's Doctor Not Board Certified, Paid $150,000. Monthly...Failed To Provide Legal Duty of Care!!

MSNBC----

Folks the plot and investigation surrounding the mysterious death King of Pop Michael Jackson, continues to thicken day by day.

This morning on the "Morning Joe" show Dr. Nancy Snyderman reported that Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray, was NOT a Medical Board Certified Cardiologist and did NOT have Hospital Admitting privileges!

Dr. Snyderman whose Medical opinion I highly respect and who finally has her own show which debuts today on MSNBC, conducted research on this Conrad Murray's character & professional background.

Here's what she discovered:

Murray is a graduate of the Meharry Medical College.

He's not medical board certified as a Cardiologist.

He's licensed to practice in California, Texas and Nevada.

However Dr. Snyderman states she could find NO Hospitals where he had Admitting privileges. (OMG! Where Jackson find this guy?)

Murray was actually requested to be placed on the payroll by Jackson.

He was being paid $150,000. per month (by the Promoter of his London shows) to care for Jackson only.

Both Murray and his sister, a Nurse were living in Jackson's home.

Murray was performing CPR on Jackson while he was lying on the bed.

Dr. Snyderman states that CPR should ONLY be performed on a hard surface to get the compression correctly and to ensure that your not pressing too firmly on the patient's chest.


Reasons why Jackson's family should sue Murray and why he should be Criminally charged:

He was hired by Jackson and paid by the promoter of Jackson's London shows, scheduled for July.

As a doctor Murray had a Legal obligation to provide Accurate Duty of Care for his Patient.

Doctor's are held to this Legal Standard due to the level of Medical Knowledge they hold.

Thus Murray's first obligation should have been to his patient (Jackson) NOT the London Promoter.

Dr. Snyderman also states that Murray told LAPD he only gave Jackson the medications he requested.

The last time I checked Michael Jackson was NOT a Physician!

Since when does a doctor give his or her patients medicines THEY request versus what's Medically best for them????


Come on people!

This kind of stuff has been going on for years and it needs to be stopped!

Murray appears to have ONLY been in the deal for the money. The guy was nearly $500,000. in debt and had been sued previously.

Its obvious this guy was nothing more than a Legalized Prescription Drug Pusher and he should be prosecuted just like an Illegal Drug Pusher, for the Manslaughter of Michael Jackson.

Even if Michael Jackson did have a Prescription drug problem, Murray as a Licensed Physician (although NOT Board Certified) still had a Legal Duty of Care to put Jackson's health first, NOT Jackson's desire for more drugs.

This same thing took place when Anna Nicole Smith died and the doctor in that situation WAS charged with contributing to her death.

Murray deserves the same treatment.

Murray no doubt violated his Oath and Medical Ethics for money.

Something is seriously wrong with our current Health Care system when a person regardless of their wealth, is able to obtain prescription drugs legally at their whim.

This includes the Pharmacists who fill those prescriptions for the SAME patient without raising an eyebrow.

Jackson's Toxicology test results should help reveal the fact that Murray should be charged with Manslaughter and then be sued by the Jackson family for Malpratice.

Let Murray's Trial begin.

Stay tuned.


(Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray and HIS lawyer reports Murray did not give the King of Pop any Demerol. I call BS on that statement!)

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LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson still had a faint pulse and his body was warm when his doctor found him in bed and not breathing, a lawyer for the doctor told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Lawyer Edward Chernoff also said Dr. Conrad Murray never prescribed or gave Jackson the drugs Demerol or OxyContin. He denied reports suggesting Murray gave Jackson drugs that contributed to his death.

Chernoff told the AP that Murray was at the pop icon’s rented mansion on Thursday afternoon when he discovered Jackson in bed and not breathing. The doctor immediately began administering CPR, Chernoff said.

“He just happened to find him in his bed, and he wasn’t breathing,” the lawyer said. “Mr. Jackson was still warm and had a pulse.”

Jackson’s family requested a private autopsy in part because of questions about Murray, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday.

People close to Michael Jackson have said since his death that they were concerned about his use of painkillers. Los Angeles County medical examiners completed their autopsy Friday and said Jackson had taken unspecified prescription medication.

Chernoff said any drugs the doctor gave Jackson were prescribed in response to a specific complaint from the 50-year-old.

“Dr. Murray has never prescribed nor administered Demerol to Michael Jackson,” Chernoff said. “Not ever. Not that day. ... Not Oxycontin (either) for that matter.”

Chernoff told NBC's "Dateline" that he could not reveal specific medications Jackson was taking, but added that if toxicology tests revealed the presence of Demerol or Oxycontin, "it will be a surprise to us."

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When asked by "Dateline" about the state of Jackson's health, Chernoff said, "he was a frail man, he didn't like to drink or eat. He wasn't exactly healthy to begin with."

Says CPR was correctly performed:

Paramedics were called to the mansion while the doctor was performing CPR, according to a recording of the 911 call. Medics spent three-quarters of an hour trying to revive Jackson. He was pronounced dead later at UCLA Medical Center.

Chernoff responded to allegations that Murray performed CPR incorrectly by performing it while Jackson lay in bed, rather than immediately moving him to a hard surface. Chernoff told "Dateline" that Murray adjusted his treatment by putting one hand behind Jackson's back and performing compressions with the other hand.

"Keep in mind, Michael Jackson is a very frail individual and the doctor knew this," Chernoff told "Dateline." "And he was compressing hard enough that the doctor knew he was pumping the blood throughout the system." Chernoff said Murray did eventually move Jackson to the floor where he continued CPR.

Chernoff also debunked rumors that Jackson's children saw their father collapse and thought he was faking. "No, that (rumor) came out of nowhere," he told "Dateline." "The kids did not see that."

Murray was interviewed by investigators for three hours Saturday. His spokeswoman called Murray “a witness to this tragedy,” not a suspect in the death, and police described the doctor as cooperative.

Chernoff also said the promoter of Jackson’s 50-show London concerts, AEG Live, owes the cardiologist $300,000.

“His contract with the promoters states he would receive an amount of money each month to be his (Jackson’s) personal physician and they have failed to honor that contract,” Chernoff said. “They are two months behind.”

Randy Phillips, president and CEO of AEG Live, acknowledged the contract called for Murray to be paid $150,000 a month, but said the contract required Jackson’s signature.

“Michael never signed the contract,” Phillips said.

He also said the doctor’s claim for payment may be against Jackson’s estate, not AEG which was merely advancing the money to Jackson.

On Saturday, Murray, who was with Jackson during his final moments, sat down with investigators for three hours. His spokeswoman said he is not a suspect in the death.

Murray “helped identify the circumstances around the death of the pop icon and clarified some inconsistencies,” spokeswoman Miranda Sevcik said. She said the doctor remains “a witness to this tragedy.”

Police confirmed they had interviewed Murray and said he was cooperative.

Lawyer selected:

Meanwhile, Jackson’s mother selected a lawyer who represented Jackson last year in a breach-of-contract suit and has advised other high-profile clients to help the family, said a person who requested anonymity because the matter is private.

The legal move came as the Rev. Jesse Jackson revealed that Michael Jackson’s family wanted a second, private autopsy of the pop superstar because of unanswered questions about how he died.

“It’s abnormal,” Jesse Jackson said from Chicago a day after visiting the Jackson family. “We don’t know what happened. Was he injected and with what? All reasonable doubt should be addressed.”

A private pathologist hired by the Jackson family completed the second autopsy Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the case.

A second autopsy can allow the family to get some information about a death almost immediately, including signs of heart, brain or lung disease or fresh needle punctures, said Dr. Michael Baden, a medical examiner not involved in the Jackson case.

“Usually if it looks normal with the naked eye, it looks normal under the microscope,” said Baden, who recently performed a second autopsy on actor David Carradine.

Los Angeles County coroner’s officials completed their autopsy on Jackson on Friday and said there was no indication of trauma or foul play. But because of additional tests, an official cause of death could take weeks to determine.

People close to Jackson have said since his death that they were concerned about his use of painkillers. Los Angeles County medical examiners completed their autopsy Friday and said Jackson had taken prescription medication.

No word on funeral plans, guardians:

There was no word from the Jackson family on funeral plans. Many of Jackson’s relatives have gathered at the family’s Encino compound, caring there for Jackson’s three children.

It remains unclear whom Jackson designated as potential guardians for his children. Those details, likely contained in the 50-year-old singer’s will, have not been released.

An attorney for Deborah Rowe, the mother of Jackson’s two oldest children, issued a statement Saturday asking that the Jackson family “be able to say goodbye to their loved one in peace.”

A White House adviser said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that President Barack Obama had written to the Jackson family to express his condolences.

Al Sharpton, who arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, said he was heading to the Jackson compound and would talk with the family about how to memorialize the late pop star. Sharpton said they want to hold memorials in key cities around the globe and also planned a memorial service Tuesday at the Apollo Theater in New York.

On Saturday, three of Jackson’s brothers — Jackie, Jermaine and Tito — visited Jackson’s Neverland Ranch where they walked the manicured grounds and reminisced about his life. It is not clear what will become of the ranch, which has been under renovations.

Owen Blicksilver, a spokesman for Colony Capital LLC, the Los Angeles-based firm where investor Thomas Barrack is chairman and CEO, said it was premature to discuss the future of Neverland. Barrack previously set up the joint venture with Michael Jackson after the singer nearly lost the ranch to foreclosure.

Barrack feels close to family members and wants to hear their thoughts on how best to honor Jackson’s memory, Blicksilver said. The investor joined Jackie, Jermaine and Tito Jackson for lunch Saturday at the sprawling Santa Barbara County property.


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