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Conrad Murray in the death of his patient |
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FOR several months after that fateful day of June 25, the LAPD investigative unit chiefs and the LA District Attorney hotly debated what charges could be brought against Dr. Conrad Murray in the death of his patient, pop superstar Michael Jackson.
Most wanted to go for murder, but they feared a déjà vu of the disastrous OJ Simpson and Robert Blake homicide trials, so embarrassing and demoralizing to LA law enforcement. Indeed, they had less substantive evidence against Murray than the two acquitted celebrities. So, finally, erring on the side of caution, DA Steve Cooley, settled on charging the cardiologist with grossly negligent manslaughter.
As it stands now, the DA’s evidence against Dr. Murray is formidable. The autopsy report is against him, as is circumstantial evidence, his own erroneous account, not to mention his checkered past.
Murray told LAPD detectives that he intravenously administered to a sleepless Jackson four sedatives over the course of about eight hours, then 25 milligrams of propofol. But the coroner reported finding a dose of the powerful anesthetic sufficient for general surgery — 400 milligrams.
The District Attorney charges that Murray fell far short of his legal obligation to show a professional measure of care. The doctor’s defense team will have a difficult time refuting or even casting reasonable doubt on this charge.
Standard medical procedure dictates that propofol be administered with a regulating infusion pump, or risk patient overdose. Murray used no such instrument. An ECG and pulse oximeter should have been on hand. They were not. For a continuous and regulated oxygen supply, Murray should have intubated Jackson. He neglected this basic safety precaution as well.
In short, gross negligence seems apparent from the lack of proper monitoring and life support mechanisms. Even had they been present, many physicians insist that propofol should never be used outside a fully equipped hospital, or by a doctor who is not an anesthesiologist.
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