Doctor cites errors in Jackson care
A medical expert testified yesterday that a physician’s repeated and flagrant violations of the standard of care involving a powerful anesthetic led to the death of Michael Jackson. Dr. Steven Shafer told jurors the lack of proper medical equipment and the absence of notes and medical records by Dr. Conrad Murray, along with a breakdown of the patient-doctor relationship were factors in the death. Murray was acting more like Jackson’s employee than a physician who should have rejected the singer’s requests for the anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid, Shafer said.
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