Last Thursday night, Britney was taken to Cedars Sinai Medical Center with an entourage of ambulance paramedics, fire trucks, a police chopper and a throng of papparazzi in tow.

Only to be released from the hospital and escorted to her car reportedly by Dr. Phil McGraw earlier today.

Yes, that Dr. Phil.

“My meeting with Britney and some of her family members this morning in her room at Cedars leaves me convinced more than ever that she is in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention. She was released moments before my arrival and was packing when I entered the room. We visited for about an hour before I walked with her to her car. I am very concerned for her,” McGraw told ET Online.

Britney’s next adventure might involve having her brain injected with wild Tazmanian female boar’s blood - right after she shops for more clothes and scores a latte’ on the way to a visit with her psychiatrist.

This is what happens when a family’s young, famous moneymaker has her adolescence stolen from her, simply because she’s a hot ticket. The Recording Industy Association of America ranks Britney as the eighth best-selling female artist in American music history.

Thanks to the substantial lack of meaningful parental guidance she received growing up, Britney now finds herself playing the lead in her own bizarre minute-by-minute docudrama as a bad mother who just might be as crazy as a bedbug.

Who’s responsible for this pop tart gone wild?  Not the media, her agents, not the public greedily sucking up and reveling in the stupidity of her every move. 

Bottom line, her parents are responsible.

Think about it: Who put Britney into show business when she was only eight years old? Her parents. Who pushed her forward to audition for off-Broadway productions and TV shows? Her parents. Who encouraged her to be on the “New Mickey Mouse Show” on the Disney Channel and later, record a demo for Jive Records? You guessed it, her parents.

And they wonder why she’s a tabloid novelty act driving up sales for every rag from “Us Weekly” to “In Touch”, “OK!” and “People” magazines. Or, for that matter, why she’s a potential candidate for the lock up unit at the neighborhood psych ward.

What a shame Britney doesn’t pull herself together and take her parents to court to sue them for “loss of childhood.”

Considering the current state of affairs with courts in general these days, Britney could easily win a huge settlement from her parents to compensate for what she personally lost over the years.

Then again, she’d have to be sane enough to appear in court. Thus far, that has proven to be a serious personal challenge for Brit Brit.