Thread:Comments:California judge jails Michael Jackson doctor/Dr. Murray overestimated his medical abilities.

This is what I think. (And I'm a medical layman, go figure.) Administering a highly dangerous drug such as Propofol CANNOT be done in a private bedroom. What you need here is an array of clinical apparatuses specially crafted for this kind of thing; you need not be a studied physician to see that fact. And these machines cost a man's fortune and usually cannot be afforded by a lone physician alone, which is the simple reason why you won't find anyone of them carrying one of these around in his pick-up truck...Plus, the presence of an anestethist alone can be the decisive figure between exitus or survival. Jackson's life was literally on a SILKY STRING. And Murray had played with that silky string as if it was a steel rope. On the other hand, it was, admittedly, also a Catch-22 kind of situation. Your patient - and a worldwide respected celebrity at that - almost FORCING you to give him a IV infusion, and you feeling as if you would endanger the private friendship to this man by repeatedly refusing to fulfil his wishes. But alas, it's not that simple: if you find your patient in a kind of delirium, sometimes talking weird things while asleep or (half-)awake, you should not feel like a monster if you decide to say "NO." And even if Michael, much later, had said "Why did you act against my wishes? Can we still be friends now?", you could have replied, calmly: "Of course we can. Because, if I had done as you told me to, you would not be speaking to me now but be lying 6 feet under instead! Do you copy that?". I'm sure "even" Michael Jackson would have seen reason in this case. -andy 77.7.2.138 (talk) 13:31, 10 June 2013 (UTC)