Wednesday, February 06, 2008

There Are Accidents and Then There Are "Accidents."

As a health care geek, I feel compelled to comment on this headline calling Heath Ledger's death "accidental."   Mr. Ledger might have accidentally taken some pills in the wrong combination or quantity, but he combined TWO industrial strength painkillers, TWO anti-anxiety meds and TWO sleep aids and ALL required a physician's prescription.  Unless those scripts somehow wrote themselves, I'm betting the only accident here is giving a certain clueless physician a license and prescription pad, a physician who must've flunked "polypharmacy 101" in med school.  I'm just sayin...

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