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Old 1st July 2009, 08:57 AM
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^ There is no doubt though that the doctors behavior is questionable to say the least. Why disappear after the fact and immediately hire a criminal attorney even though the police had said he wasn't a suspect. Not calling 911 immediately makes absolutely no sense, I doubt he was the only person there (for sure he wasn't since someone else made the 911 call and the caller uses the word "they"), and if he was you still always call 911 before you start CPR - it doesn't matter how much CPR you do if no ambulence is on the way. If he can somehow manage the feat of performing CPR with one hand, he can certainly do it with 2 hands while talking on the phone supported by his shoulder. That would actually make more sense than anything he has claimed. Also this guy was supposed to be a cardiologist (but he was not board certified, there's a major red flag right there) but yet he apparently didn't know how to properly run a heart related code? Nor did he have a crash cart with any of the materials that are actually necessary in emergency situations. Why hire a cardiologist in the first place then?

I actually asked my mother about the hospital beds thing (she has been a nurse for 25+ years) and she confirmed that CPR should never be given on a bed - doesn't matter how firm it is, especially when the person could be moved to the floor. Hospital beds are firmer than most beds, yet nurses/doctors are still required to put a backboard underneath a patient when giving CPR. You can see the same opinion from several other doctors and nurses.

And yeah, the "one handed CPR" trick - I can't believe his lawyer is going with that as a defense it just seems like a desperate move to try to explain away the CPR being performed on a bed. If CPR on a bed is inefficient, one handed CPR is pretty much impossible.

Not knowing the address doesn't matter either since when you call 911, the police can get your address almost immediately. Besides that, it is pretty weird that he didn't know the address of the place that he himself was living at.

And then, I don't know how "official" to consider this yet, but according to a few sources by the time that paramedics arrived, it was obvious Jackson was dead and had been so for a while. They wanted to call the coroner, yet the doctor insisted that they run a full code.

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