Prince’s local doctor identified in search warrant, Report

The doctor treating Prince the week the pop star died — possibly from a drug overdose — has been identified in court papers. Minnesota police, investigating Prince’s death, served a search warrant on Minneapolis-area familiy physician Dr Michael Todd Schulenberg.

Interviewed after police arrived, Schulenberg told investigators that he had prescribed medication to Prince on April 20, and the singer was supposed to fill the prescription at Walgreens. The warrant does not note if he actually did, although TMZ has run photos said to be of Prince outside a Walgreens the night of April 20.

The affidavit notes that Schulenberg told the detective he had previously performed tests on Prince and arrived on the morning April 21 to drop off the test results, only to find that Prince was dead.

The search warrant for Prince’s medical records was filed April 27 and carried out May 5.

The L.A. Times notes Schulenberg’s LinkedIn profile page has been removed from public view and states that he no longer works for the North Memorial Health Care system.

Separately, last week a lawyer for specialist Howard Kornfeld, an opioid addiction doctor who runs the Recovery Without Walls clinic in Mill Valley, Calif., confirmed to the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Associated Press that he was called by Prince’s staff on April 20 because Prince “was dealing with a grave medical emergency.”

In a subsequent press conference, Kornfeld’s lawyer, William Mauzy of Minneapolis, said because Kornfeld was unable to see Prince until April 22, the doctor sent his son, Andrew Kornfeld, to Paisley Park to discuss Prince’s treatment options.

Andrew Kornfeld was carrying a starter dose of Suboxone (buprenorphine), a drug used to treat opiate addiction, which he planned to transfer to a local doctor who had an appointment to meet with Prince the morning of April 21. The local doctor was not identified.

Andrew Kornfeld was one of the people who discovered the musician’s body in an elevator at Paisley Park and made the 911 call.

Agencies/Canadajournal