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I wanted to get the opinions of SDNers. We have this news item http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328828,00.html about Heath Ledger's "accidental" overdose of "the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine".
Three Vicodin instead of two may be "accidental"; taking your Xanax when you thought you grabbed your vitamins may be "accidental". CAN ANYONE OUT THERE TELL ME HOW SOMEONE TAKES THREE BENZOS, TWO NARCS AND AN ANTIHISTAMINE ACCIDENTALLY?????????????
I just notice the threads about how medicine is slipping in prestige and how future physicians have low morale about their profession. Then I see a story like this and I have to, at least for a moment, ask: "Does it make more sense to (at least) imply that doctors and their wacky prescription writing killed this actor rather than (at least) the possibility that this was another Holloywood overdose?
I can understand wanting to spare the Ledger family the pain of the Paparazzi invasion if this were a suicide. (I don't wish anyone that kind of pain.) But can anyone else out there see this as a thinly veiled attack on physicians while spinning this story away from blaming Hollywood and its culture?
Just a thought.
Three Vicodin instead of two may be "accidental"; taking your Xanax when you thought you grabbed your vitamins may be "accidental". CAN ANYONE OUT THERE TELL ME HOW SOMEONE TAKES THREE BENZOS, TWO NARCS AND AN ANTIHISTAMINE ACCIDENTALLY?????????????
I just notice the threads about how medicine is slipping in prestige and how future physicians have low morale about their profession. Then I see a story like this and I have to, at least for a moment, ask: "Does it make more sense to (at least) imply that doctors and their wacky prescription writing killed this actor rather than (at least) the possibility that this was another Holloywood overdose?
I can understand wanting to spare the Ledger family the pain of the Paparazzi invasion if this were a suicide. (I don't wish anyone that kind of pain.) But can anyone else out there see this as a thinly veiled attack on physicians while spinning this story away from blaming Hollywood and its culture?
Just a thought.