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Wednesday, December 11, 2002I don’t blame Love for being upset. The Medical Board should have done more to protect the identity of the patients it mentions in the investigation. It should have been enough to identify her as “C.L.” rather than “a fairly well-known musician, age thirty-six when she first saw Lussman on June 25, 2001,” and then go on to mention that she’s also known as “Ms. C.-L.C., as she had at one point been married to Mr. C., who passed away,” and that the year of her birth was 1965. Then, too, it appears that someone at the Medical Board leaked her identity to the media: While a spokesperson for the board could not reveal the identity of "C.L.," two sources familiar with the investigation told the Los Angeles Times it was Love. They could have used more discretion in the report. It’s a very detailed rundown of the various maladies C.L. claimed to have when she saw Lusman. No one deserves to have their medical records hung out in public like that. Medical board reports are public documents, and they should be. But a case could have been made against Lusman without revealing so much about his famous client. Speaking of Celebrities: Courtney Love’s troubles began because her friend, Winona Ryder, used the same doctor to get drugs. The whole thing came to light during Ryder’s trial for shoplifting. When arrested, Ryder was found to have not only store merchandise in her purse, but a virtual pharmacopeia: On the day of her December 2001 arrest, officials say Ryder (or, Emily Thompson, as she was known around Rite-Aid) was found in possession of a syringe, a bottle of Aleve filled with Vicoprofen, Vicodin, morphine sulphate and Percodan (but, alas, no Aleve) and a yellow plastic pillbox containing Valium and Percocet. Her lawyers say she has a “pain management problem,” but it looks like her problem isn’t managing pain so much as managing to fit all of her drugs into her purse and to find ways to pay for them that can’t be traced. Courtney Love is also on record using a popular (and often overused) medical diagnosis to excuse Ryder’s behavior: In November, Courtney Love, a famous female rocker herself, told the New York Daily News that Ryder didn't deserve jail time for shoplifting because "she's got [attention deficit disorder] almost as bad as me." Love spoke of previous shopping trips when the two lost track of what had been purchased and what hadn't. Please. posted by Sydney on 12/11/2002 06:30:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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