I don’t know about you, but I’m having trouble making sense of the behaviour of Michael Jacksons personal physician. He was at the house before and during the 911 call, doing CPR (on a bed – not the normal place for CPR, and not very effective) but had already vanished by the time the paramedics arrived 7 minutes later. However he left, it wasn’t by car, because the police towed that. Sounds a bit like the old Snagglepuss line (”Exit, Stage Left!”).
Now, let me get this straight. I have a legal obligation, as a plain Joe citizen, to stay at the scene of an accident if I witness it, assist emergency workers and speak to the police to give witness testimony.
He was more than a casual witness, hence, I would guess, a more compelling obligation to stay.
He’s a trained cardiologist, he administered drugs to MJ about an hour before, MJ had gone into cardiac arrest, he was administering CPR to MJ, he was the personal physician, yet he suddenly remembered another more pressing engagement? He was late for his pedicure? What can be more important than staying with your personal patient who has just coded? Forget that it was Michael Jackson. Forget that he was hired as personal physician to this specific patient. Isn’t every doctor expected to stick around until the ambulance arrives under these circumstances?
The police say he is “co-operating fully” with them. Huh? He already didn’t co-operate (or even operate) as he should have. What am I missing in this story?