Comments on: Michael Jackson Death Ruled Homicide from Lethal Dose of Anesthetic http://www.theplasticsurgerychannel.com/celebrity-plastic-surgery/michael-jackson-death-ruled-homicide-from-lethal-dose-of-anesthetic.html Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:48:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Barry Friedberg http://www.theplasticsurgerychannel.com/celebrity-plastic-surgery/michael-jackson-death-ruled-homicide-from-lethal-dose-of-anesthetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-370 Barry Friedberg Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:37:57 +0000 http://www.theplasticsurgerychannel.com/celebrity-plastic-surgery/michael-jackson-death-ruled-homicide-from-lethal-dose-of-anesthetic.html#comment-370 That Dr. Murray was giving Jackson propofol, an intravenous drug in an unsanctioned manner in California, a state in which he held no medical license, was bad enough to warrant legal action against him, even without an lethal outcome. Published pictures of Jackson's bedroom do not show a single monitor of any sort, much less a pulse oximeter. The tonal change of the pulse oximeter would have alerted Murray of Jackson's desaturation while Murray micturated & could have saved Jackson's life. Propofol is safest when titrated with a brain monitor like a BIS. Clearly, this type of monitor would be beyond Murray's knowledge base as a 'cardiologist.' However, the lack of evidence of even so basic a monitor as a pulse oximeter suggests a wanton disregard for human life. Performing CPR on Jackson in his bed without a board under him is unlikely to produce satisfactory chest compression. Show business is best left to the performers, not their physicians. Leaving Jackson during CPR to summon additional help is absurd on the face of it and suggests the action of someone trying to 'look good, not do good.' That Dr. Murray was giving Jackson propofol, an intravenous drug in an unsanctioned manner in California, a state in which he held no medical license, was bad enough to warrant legal action against him, even without an lethal outcome.
Published pictures of Jackson’s bedroom do not show a single monitor of any sort, much less a pulse oximeter. The tonal change of the pulse oximeter would have alerted Murray of Jackson’s desaturation while Murray micturated & could have saved Jackson’s life.
Propofol is safest when titrated with a brain monitor like a BIS. Clearly, this type of monitor would be beyond Murray’s knowledge base as a ‘cardiologist.’ However, the lack of evidence of even so basic a monitor as a pulse oximeter suggests a wanton disregard for human life.
Performing CPR on Jackson in his bed without a board under him is unlikely to produce satisfactory chest compression. Show business is best left to the performers, not their physicians. Leaving Jackson during CPR to summon additional help is absurd on the face of it and suggests the action of someone trying to ‘look good, not do good.’

]]> By: Tom Degan http://www.theplasticsurgerychannel.com/celebrity-plastic-surgery/michael-jackson-death-ruled-homicide-from-lethal-dose-of-anesthetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-369 Tom Degan Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:16:42 +0000 http://www.theplasticsurgerychannel.com/celebrity-plastic-surgery/michael-jackson-death-ruled-homicide-from-lethal-dose-of-anesthetic.html#comment-369 We have to give the man his due: Michael Jackson was - beyond a shadow of a doubt - a great artist whose recorded legacy will endure for decades, maybe even a century or more. But an examination of his life is riddled with questions of all that might have been; all that should have been. It is more than likely that this was a severely mentally ill human being who never sought the treatment he so desperately needed; surrounded by fawning sycophants who enabled his sickness by constantly reassuring him that he could do no wrong. As John Lennon once said in the same context about Elvis Presley, another victim of the excesses of fame: "It's always the courtiers that kill the king". The sad, inescapable truth is that for reasons we will probably never be able to fully understand, his talent and his career were ultimately wasted. Like Charlie Parker, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland and Lenny Bruce before him, his brilliance as an artist would be overshadowed by severe, psychological torment and an unexplainable desire for self-destruction. Therein lies the real, unspeakable tragedy of Michael Jackson. Tom Degan Goshen, NY We have to give the man his due: Michael Jackson was – beyond a shadow of a doubt – a great artist whose recorded legacy will endure for decades, maybe even a century or more. But an examination of his life is riddled with questions of all that might have been; all that should have been. It is more than likely that this was a severely mentally ill human being who never sought the treatment he so desperately needed; surrounded by fawning sycophants who enabled his sickness by constantly reassuring him that he could do no wrong. As John Lennon once said in the same context about Elvis Presley, another victim of the excesses of fame: “It’s always the courtiers that kill the king”.

The sad, inescapable truth is that for reasons we will probably never be able to fully understand, his talent and his career were ultimately wasted. Like Charlie Parker, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland and Lenny Bruce before him, his brilliance as an artist would be overshadowed by severe, psychological torment and an unexplainable desire for self-destruction. Therein lies the real, unspeakable tragedy of Michael Jackson.

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

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