PHARMACIST STEVE

I have been “binge watching” the HLN newwork’s shows titled “How it really Happened”.   One in particular “The Strange Case of the Killer Nanny”

concerning the death of a 6 month old little boy under the care of a live-in Nanny.  The defense was made up of  high priced attorneys and various top-notched medical experts.  The extensive details of the medical experts was pretty “into the medical weeds” and to me established a more than reasonable doubt that the nanny was the cause of the baby’s death.

How a jury of 12 lay people could even begin to understand what was presented seems like monumental task and apparently it was over the head of most of the jury since they came back and found her guilty.

The prosecutor had their own set of medical experts and put forth a whole 180 degree different hypothesis of why the baby died.

There is a lot of daily talk about “listening to the experts” as to what should have been done and should be done going forward in dealing with COVID-19.

Here is a recent post on a opiate crisis trial in NY, where the prosecutor’s “expert”  David Aaron Kessler (born May 13, 1951) is an American pediatrician, lawyer, author, and administrator

In this article there is some alarming admissions from Kessler that he did little examination of pt’s medical records and/or very little any studies to come to his conclusions that “opiates are bad”

New York’s opioid case: No improper prescriptions, no misled docs, big damages

Remember the Oklahoma’s J&J opiate trial and who the prosecuting team HIRED as a EXPERT  – Andrew Kolodny !!

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572 million for its role in Oklahoma’s opioid crisis

You will also notice in the above link that the video testimony from Kolodny has been taken down 🙁

Everyone needs to pay attention that when some is saying that they are “following the expert’s advice” they need to look into the background of THE EXPERT

 

 

 

 

 

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