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Just where do you draw the line?

Dr Steven Shafer, the Columbia University Anaesthesiology Professor, at Michael "Whacko" Jackson's trial on using propofol as a sleeping aid.... "'Yes' is not what a doctor says to a patient request that is not in their best interest." "We are in pharmacological never-never land here, something that was done to Michael Jackson and no one else in history to my knowledge," he told the jury. "...Dr Conrad Murray had acted like the pop star's obedient "employee" and not his doctor, who should have refused the star's requests for propofol." FG was once told by his part-time casual employer not to return to do locum work as the patients were unhappy with FG's refusal to administer a narcotic analgesic injection as outpatient to someone  for something trivial (a headache) when a oral  medication should suffice. The joke is on FG as the employer went on to prosper to become a local leader and was bestowed numerous ...