I have to say that that is so creepy. What kind of a brain cramp could that doctor have been having?! The whole Michael Jackson story is one of incredible pathos but before he started getting medicated and drugged to the hilt he channeled that suffering into some truly great performing.

P.S. He couldn't sleep because the doctor was trying to withdraw him from stuff in a way that demonstrates ignorance about withdrawal -- so what else is new?

"...it is simply stunning to me that an MD would do this to him."

It's stunning to me that MD's are doing to a whole bunch of people.
I wonder what MJackson took after his death and what effects these drugs have caused.

Sara,
As always says too much with few words.

It seems like this story is gonna be with us for a long long long time

Anyway, bad enough Dr. M. gave the Propofol to MJ, but the fact that he didn't have the correct monitoring devices enacted shows gross incompetence, and likely manslaughter. RIP MJ

It astonishes me that adults like this doctor (and so many others) get caught up in the web of celebs like Jackson, Elvis, Liz Taylor, etc. Apparently they've never heard of "Just Say No."

The doc sounds like the non-alcoholic partner in a dysfunctional family. You expect more because they seem healthy, but it's really an illusion. It's hard to imagine how he got involved in something as goofy as anesthetizing a person nightly. It seems to me that a person who requires that sort of "treatment" has bigger problems than insomnia.

And, at what point, does the patient become accountable for allowing things to get to such a craziness? We all make small decisions every day, decisions that lead to end results that often seem to come out of the blue. But they really don't. Jackson refused to deal with things, chose to buy people off instead. His death, while technically homicide, is also suicide in a real sense.

Propofol is suppossed to only be used either as an anesthetic by an anesthesiologist when putting people under for surgery -or- in emergency rooms where they have to get the patient under qucik due to the severity of thier injuries and having to do painful procedures there on the spot.

This doctor is nutty or stupid if he thought it would ever be seen as anything less than malpractice to give it to someone simply for the purposes of sleep and outside of a hospital setting.

I heard a story on Propofol on NPR or something saying that because it is being abused, like in this case, or by doctors to help them get sleep between doubles or tripples or whatever insane hours some end up working - or just to get high by some- that the DEA is ready to schedule it as a schedule II drug. That means it would be MUCH more controlled AND that there would be no fast acting anesthetic on hand for emergency rooms to use without having to jump thru hoops and hoops to get it from the pharmacy to the patient. THAT would suck for anyone going into the ER with extreemly painful injuries that need immediate attention that would increase the pain they were already feeling.

The DEA ought to come up with a schedule II-b for substances that hospitals need on hand quickly and don't have time to fill out the records prior to using. And ONLY hospitals (and accredited anesthesiologists) should have any special priveldges, not general practicioners etc. Because I would sure hate to have a couple broken ribs, internal bleeding, a couple crush injuries etc, and NOT be able to be put under right away as soon as I got to the hospital.
But really when it comes to not being able to fall asleep at night, I'd rather be given an antipsychotic (if it was as bad as in MJs case where not even two sedatives worked) for sleep than something that #1 can kill you and #2 the effects only last for a little bit and you have to be re-injected with this stuff repeatedly to have it by itself keep you under.

Wow I can't believe this i hope mike gets fair justice.

It surprises me not a bit. I live in Southern California. You would crawl out of your skin if you knew how many absolutely corrupt(an inept) doctors there are. If you've got money, looks, or connections they WILL trade drugs for whatever...It happens every single day. The story will continue-the names of the deceased will just change.

I thought Dr. Murray was suspicious from the beginning. Now the truth is coming out.