Janet Blames Doc For Michael's Death

(AP)  Janet Jackson blames Dr. Conrad Murray for her brother Michael's death.

She told ABC News in an interview to air Wednesday that Murray should no longer be allowed to practice medicine. "He was the one that was administering," Jackson said. "I think he is responsible."

Prosecutors in Los Angeles are weighing charges against Murray in the pop singer's death. Murray told police he administered a powerful anesthetic to the singer shortly before Jackson died June 25.

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A spokeswoman for the doctor, Miranda Sevcik, said Monday he continues to maintain he neither prescribed or administered anything to Jackson that should have killed him.

Jackson told ABC's Robin Roberts that she was at her home in New York on June 25 when her assistant called to say Michael had been taken to the hospital. She told relatives to call her when they got to the hospital and grew concerned when she wasn't getting any calls back.

She says that a day doesn't go by when she doesn't think of Michael. "It just didn't ring true to me. It felt like a dream," she said. "It's still so difficult for me to believe."

[drjecky]

I am a doctor, anaesthesiologist. I use Propofol in my practice every day. We use it as an induction agent to put our patients to sleep and maintain anaesthesia throughout operations, or just for sedation. It is a very safe drug in controlled hospital setting. In order to use it safely you need to monitor your patients breathing, oxygen saturation, ECG, heart rate, blood presure. It affects breathing and circulation. You need airway equipment and skills to use it in order to establish and maintain free airway if necessary. You need medications that will support blood pressure, heart rate and the circulation in general if necessary. Of course you need the knowledge and the skills to use these medications. You need oxygen supply. You need equipment, skills and medications for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation if needed. And you need skilled people around you who will assist you to treat the patient. You cannot do all these things on your own no matter how knoledgable and skilled you are.
So home setting is not a safe place to use this drug.
If propofol is used with other respiratory depressants such as diffrent sorts of Benzodiazepines (Midazolam, Lorazepam, Diazepam...Michael Jackson had got all of them and in quite big doses before Propofol)it will almost inevitably cause respiratory depression.
Well as a doctor you should not encourage your patients condition, and drug addiction is a medical condition. Insomnia as well.
From what I have read so far about this case Michael Jackson might have well been just a man who suffered from insomnia. No opioids were found in his blood. There are a lot of insomniacs among us. All of them use medications to help them got through their nights so they can manage their days. We do not call them drug addicts. I do not know if Michael Jackson was an drug addict or insomniac. What I know is that this doctor who administered this drug killed him by his negligance, incompetence and ignorance. For money.

[meditating]

Assuming that this doctor was administering Propofal to Michael Jackson, which has yet to be proven, there is no excuse for such a blatant violation of professional ethics; however, the greatest responsibility rests with Michael Jackson. If not this doctor, Jackson certainly would have purchased himself another.

[thesevenveils]

No, Don't Blame Mikey and his obsessive quest for prescription drugs, his decades long abuse of prescription drugs.

No don't blame the real problem, other wise the truth will hurt.

[SusanStoHelit]

You really think a hit man would get away with that? "If I hadn't agreed to kill the guy, they'd have just hired another".

This doctor, by all the reports was incompetent - he administered deadly drugs, and then went to take a phone call. It doesn't matter what the patient asked for - doctors are not allowed to kill their patients, period. When they give drugs, they are to do so safely - he left the room.

[repforbarack]

Murray belongs under the jail.

RIP Michael

[mtcolquitt]

Michael twisted Dr. Murray's arm with mega dollars. They are both guilty. (You know the Jackson Family knew too, but could not do anything because DRUGS WAS WHAT MICHAEL WANTED and his family couldn't touch him.)

[boxlady]

You are exactly right; that just goes to show money still rules!!

[newyorkmom]

MJ was looking for a crooked doctor who would provide him with illegal drugs / inappropriate medication. He found one.