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The Mothers Of Invention – Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Blind Connie Williams – Philadelphia Street Singer

Sacred Guitar & Violin Music Of The Modern Aztecs Great record.

Oh no! Wishing you a speedy recovery.

Yep. Always different to how I remember it being. Hal Galper an interesting choice on piano.

Sam Rivers – A New Conception

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Gesang Der Jünglinge / Kontakte

Hawkwind – Space Ritual

Grant Green - Alive

Anne Briggs

Globe Unity Orchestra And Guests – Pearls

Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra – Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy.

Archie Shepp - Juju

Yeah. This is really getting to me. Feels like no one cared enough. Either because he was just some jazz guy, or because they thought enquiry was hopeless, or because it was more important to "print the legend", as the film has it.

I do not understand what your grounds are for saying this. Using the above three accounts, the second and third accounts do allow for an immediate diagnosis of diabetes and commencement of treatment. It is only the delay account that relies upon a delay in treatment either happening or killing him.

Some further points to note, on the edit: - There does not seem to have been any substantive internal investigation, let alone an independent investigation. - Doesn't look like anyone alleged negligence at the time, although I accept that medical negligence actions were not that common in Europe in those days. - The first hand evidence includes patient notes (which no one seems to have made the effort to check) and the hospital's formal documentation. - Conditions being what they were in Europe 1964, I would not rush to assume that a hospital would seek to cover up racist statements or failings in the way that it might have attempted to have covered up medical failings. And I would not be surprised if racist statements were made expressly, which is why I think that there might be something in Berger's account, but i really don't know enough to say whether it is something that was said or just speculation on Berger's part. I still do not think that there is any reason to assert that the evidence points clearly in one way or another.

The above thread includes first and second accounts that, if true, contradict the standard story. It is not the case that all or most of the evidence points one way, as you are saying. There are three opposing accounts, all based on first and second hand evidence. These are that: - Dolphy arrived at hospital in a diabetic coma (undiagnosed at point of admission), the doctors do not treat it quickly enough, either because of racialised assumptions about drug use or for other reasons, and as a result Dolphy dies or is treated too late and dies; - Dolphy arrived at hospital already dying from a heart attack or other collapse of his circulatory system brought on by mismanagement of his undiagnosed diabetes. That would absolve the doctors of both responsibility for the death and also the charges of racism (and we should therefore be wary of it coming from the hospital). It is nonetheless as credible as the other accounts on its face, given that the fact that Dolphy had been very sick for days and then had a collapse is the closest thing to a shared fact pattern uniting the different accounts; and - Dolphy arrived in a diabetic coma, the doctors correctly diagnose it (after a delay or without a delay) but then accidentally kill him by incorrectly administering the wrong kind of insulin, such that it was specifically the treatment / intervention by the medical professionals that was responsible for Dolphy's death. As to Berger, if he was told by the doctor that Dolphy would not be treated because it was probably just a drug overdose (or if that was on the patient notes), then his version of events certainly adds weight to the racism allegations and makes it appear that the third account (that it was the hospital treatment that killed Dolphy) is not correct. However, it would not determine between the other two accounts (Berger is not a medical professional). If he was not told that, then it is just speculation on his part. If that is the case, then it is hardly as credible as an admission by the hospital against its own interests. The fact that it may have been repeated would not stop it from being either just one of several contradictory statements or (if there were no statements made to the effect alleged) being just speculative hearsay.

Is the doctor meant to have said to Karl Berger or the tour manager that he was not treating Dolphy because Dolphy was probably just a drug user having an overdose? Sorry if I have missed this point. I have not watched the film but none of the written answers above have indicated this. If that was the case, then I would be inclined to believe the usually repeated story, notwithstanding what the cause of death or the hospitals report might say.

The other reports, which are in the thread.

There are also people on record saying the opposite. I don't know how it is possible to conclude that the doctors did delay diabetes treatment, whether based on an incorrect assumption or otherwise, or that it was the delay that killed him, rather than, e.g., the preceding heart attack, or the effect of treating the diabetes.

I don't think there is enough clarity to say that this is the story.

Soft Machine – Six

J.D. Crowe And the New South – The New South No, actually. I initially assumed you meant the Jetsons.

Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death I saw them live on a latter day tour a few years back. Not sure how many of the original groups were there, but one of the best gigs I have ever attended. Nice! For years I was put off Gong because their most famous record Camembert Electric is too "zany" for my tastes, and in the days before the Internet that was the only chance you got. But this and others of the next tier are fantastic records.

メディカル – Vicodin Hydrocodone This sort of stuff really is not my music. Electronic and instrumental soundscapes with field recordings and a depressed vibe. Probably fun to posture to on the internet but just really dreary background music to my ears. Gal e Caetano Velloso – Domingo