Anna’s Death May Have Been Prevented
27 03 2007Anna Nicole Smith could still be alive, if she had been hospitalized prior to her death. According to People, a medical statement was issued Monday by Howard K. Stern saying she refused emergency medical care, fearing a "media frenzy."
After the results of Smith's autospy report on Monday, Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper said that
Smith had been suffering from the stomach flu, a 105 degree temperature, and an infection from repeatedly drug injections.
According to the Associated Press, Smith was also on other severe medications including: powerful sleeping drug, chloral hydrate; methadone; valium; several antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs; longevity medications; vitamin B12; and growth hormones. She died form an accidental drug overdose.
If Smith got treatment for her flu, she might have been saved. Perper claims, "If she would have gone to the hospital she wouldn't have died because she wouldn't have had the opportunity to take the excessive amount of chloral hydrate."
According to a statement from Stern, Smith did not want to seek medical attention prior to her death because "she did not want the media frenzy that follows her."
Chloral hydrate is a known fatal drug, if taken with certain other drugs- including Lorazempam- which the autopsy showed Anna was taking, Dr. Chip Walls, a forensic toxicologist for the Miller School of Medicine at the Univesity of Miami, told the Associated Press.









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