You’ve probably heard the 911 call by an anonymous man asking that an ambulance be sent as soon as possible.
It turns out while on the 911 call, the phoner says that the doctor is applying CPR (and doing everything) to Mr. Jackson and that Jackson is not breathing yet.
The doctor is Conrad Murray, who is said to have practices across three states.
The doc has a few problems, as stated by ABC news:
Dr. Murray has been taken to civil court in Clark County twice in the past year by Capital One Bank for unpaid bills of $2,000+/.
Maybe a billing dispute.
Dr. Murray who is said to have taken his M.D. at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, and practices medicine in Nevada, California and Texas, also has court records noting he has more than $400,000 of legal judgments against him, including child support and default on a $71,000 education loan.
Bookkeeping errors?
But the greater mystery I think, is more this:
On the 911 call, the dispatcher asks where the victim’s body is while receiving CPR (CPR is a steady, repetitive compression-pumping and release on the patient’s chest over the heart in an effort to kickstart the heart to beat again.)
Anonymous man says, ‘on the bed.’
911 Dispatcher sharply instructs anonymous man that body must be moved to floor immediately, meaning a bed is too soft to gain effective downward compression/ pressure on heart.
The oddity: anonymous man does not yell to the doctor doing CPR, ‘Put him on the floor!! They say to put him on the floor!!’
Instead, the anonymous man says…’we have a personal doctor with him, Sir.’
911 Dispatch, “Oh, you have a doctor there?”
Anonymous man: “Yes, but he’s not responding to anything. He’s not responding to CPR or anything.”
There is no more mention of putting Jackson on the floor for effective CPR, no relaying of this info.
911 Dispatch: Oh, OK, we’re on our way there. If your guy is doing CPR and you’re instructed by a doctor, he’s a higher authority than me. And he’s there on scene…
The info about moving the victim to the floor for effective CPR is lost completely.
The mystery part is about Dr. Murray. As reported, he’s a cardiologist by specialty.
According to these inferences in 911 call, the doc is not following basic protocol for resuscitation.
Does this mean Jackson was already clearly dead, and there was no point to take him to the floor for the most effective compression from both behind and fore?
Or does it mean something else entirely?
No doubt questions will be answered eventually… but for now, most recently the nanny to Jackson’s children, Grace Rwaramba, who left employ there last December after ten years of working for Jackson, says she knew of Jackson’s severe addiction of ‘always eating too little and mixing too much…’ that she pumped his stomach on many occasions.
A nanny to children –who also pumps stomachs– keeps silence for ten years while witnessing someone literally killing themselves, over and over and over? The nanny says says she spoke to Jackson’s mother and sister once about an intervention, but backed off, that Jackson was angry that she would betray him.
Wait. Betray vs help vs what? Retain employment? Most of us can understand the abject difficulty of attempting to bring a person to admit they have a problem, when their ‘problem’ is about the only thing left seemingly holding them together. Granted, tear your hair out- helpless feelings.
Yet… and yet…
and too: Is a cardiologist, who lives with his patient, not to think to have a fibrillator in the house, and most especially, a cardiologist seeming not to know basic CPR prep protocol?
Just asking.
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UPDATE 6.28/09
Dr. Murray’s lawyer said that the promoter of Jackson’s 50-show London concerts, AEG Live, owes the cardiologist $300,000.
From Washington Post, Chernoff is quoted as saying: “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.