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Paging Dr. Feelgood

The joys and perils of giving celebrities what they want.

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Correction, July 9, 2009: This article originally misstated the prescriptions given to Elvis in the final months of his life. It was 10,000 doses, not 10,000 prescriptions. (Return  to the corrected sentence.)

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Kent Sepkowitz is a physician in New York City who writes about medicine.

Photograph of Dr. Conrad Murray from AP Photo/Houston Chronicle.