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Well, I thought the latest plea offer story was preposterous, nothing more than another propaganda hit piece. Nothing followed from the earlier stories either, although they claimed that a plea offer and deal were imminent.

The DA would have a VERY hard time convicting Rush of doctor shopping. The evidence I've seen, detailing the DA's allegations, clearly refutes it. Rush lives and works on both coasts and therefore, in my experience, needs several doctors. The number of doctors that the DA said were involved is perfectly reasonable. A doctor shopper would be someone who went to, let's say, a dozen doctors claiming back pain, and got them all to prescribe. It would also involve not letting one doctor know about the other doctors. Rush saw only four or five doctors, some of them specialists. That is not doctor shopping.

In order to prove such an unusual and seldom used charge, you would have to prove intent to consult doctors purely for the sake of feeding a drug habit, and I'm sure Rush can offer other reasonable explanations for consulting them.

Rush lives and works on both coasts and therefore, in my experience, needs several doctors. ... Rush saw only four or five doctors, some of them specialists. That is not doctor shopping.

From what I read there were three doctors interviewed by the FL Attorny Gen's office. Two were in a FL clinic. One was on duty while the other was off. In essence that is one practice; both doctors using the same medical records both aware of the complete history of each patient. The doctor on the West Coast was the surgeon who did his choclear implant. Does anyone think Rush flew to CA, fooled a surgeon into thinking he was deaf and had a choclear implant just to get some pain killers?

No, it was not doctor shopping.