Your bacterium symposium is fascinating and thoroughly confusing. I suspect Perper was confused, but too arrogant to admit it.
Did he question KE on why or how ( as a medical doctor) she could prescribe such a lethal cocktail of drugs without having lab tests and blood work performed? Especially before prescribing Cipro - which is known to have severe side effects in combination with other drugs? The lack of medical oversight & caution is appalling or deliberate.
IMO, Dr. Perper has one big thing working against him - there is an “ethical” standard that prevents one doctor from speaking out publically about the practices of another doctor. There is a similar ‘gentleman’s agreement’ between attorneys.
Perper’s lab stated in their report that the substance ANS was injected with was ‘unavailable’ to them, and, amazingly enough, (still) unidentified!!
I’ve always wondered about that little statement. Why the heck Wasn’t it avail or immediately identified by HKS/KE? mark steines followed HKS back to the bahamas, surely he could have volunteered to be a courier back to the ME’s office? how about Bahama PD, Seminole PD, how about Any One? And where’s the syringe LB has jumped up and down claiming he has? Seems to me, all of this is important. And also should be of intense importance to the downline manufacturers - is there a possibility that their products were contaminated and how far-reaching is that?
People should have been running around bagging everything concievable and offering it up willingly and cooperatively to Perper. ANS was injected on Feb 2nd, but neither HKS nor KE ever came right out with - this is what she took, here’s the vial, here’s the box of sharps!
HKS was a very ‘neat’ guy - he dispensed drugs out of cute little paper med cups....HKS carried lots of pretty little bottles in his dark black bag, too...hard to believe he wouldn’t know the whereabouts of every single one of the contents at every single given moment.
Interestingly enough, it was HKS who dropped the hint about looking at the buttocks, (thereby deliberately drawing attention to a.baummanii and p. luteola) but only after some time had passed, according to Perper. This leaves a big ‘why’ in my mind:
http://www.etonline.com/celebrities/spotlight/2007/03/47553/index.html
Dr. Perper also reveals the reasons why the autopsy results took somewhat longer than expected to be announced. One reason is that they had to inspect the body a second time after Anna’s partner, HOWARD K. STERN, mentioned that Anna had complained of discomfort in one of her buttocks.
“The buttocks are not an area which is [normally] dissected during an autopsy, so, we didn’t see anything which was suspicious; therefore we did not dissect the buttocks,” says Perper, who says that a second look at the body revealed “the evidence of severe scarring and fat damage due to multiple injections” that led to the conclusion that a bacterial infection in that region contributed to Anna’s demise.
Another reason involved possible clues that may have been contained in a laptop taken in for evidence.
“It was important to obtain this evidence, which was indeed helpful in disclosing her state of mind after the death of her son,” says Perper, “so that was the reason for the delay [in results]. The reason for the delay was that it was necessary to find out what the proper legal avenue is for obtaining the information without damaging it for other purposes.”
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/09/cnr.06.html
PERPER: But I’m going to question. There are two types of questioning. There is medical questioning and non medical questioning. The police did its own non medical questioning. I’ll do the medical one and I’m going to ask all of the proper questions and this is the ...
PERPER: ... there was a lot of issues in this process. Some are pure legal issues and those were handled by the judge, who issued today the final decision.
My duty is to make a determination of the cause of death. In other words, I had to say what caused the death, this unfortunate, sudden, unexpected and initially unexplained death. So I have to come on an explanation why she died.
QUESTION: Right.
PERPER: Then, once I do that, I have to make a second determination what is the manner of death. In other words, it’s a natural death, it’s an accident, it’s a suicide or it’s a homicide. All the possibilities are there, but at this time, we don’t have any evidence of foul play.
But this doesn’t mean that things cannot be different in the final determination.
http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/25/its-dr-perper-time/
The photo that is making the rounds shows Anna, eight months pregnant, with an infection on her leg. Sources tell TMZ that it was caused by an injection. [note: i only have a cropped version of that photo, no legs showing - wonder if here’s a ‘leg’ version circulating somewhere?]