Week 2: Day 5 Bomshells
Monday, October 3, 2011
, Posted by KizzDaLipz at 2:36 PM
1. Emergency Room Physician Richelle Cooper said Murray told her Jackson's cardiac arrest began after Murray gave him two doses of the sedative lorazepam, but Murray did not mention Jackson's use of propofol.
2.Representatives from two cell phone companies ( AT&T and Sprint/Nextel) confirmed that calls and data were made and sent from Murray's cell phone during the hour before emergency services were summoned to Jackson's home.
3.Critical Care unit Cardiologist Dr. Thao Nguyen testified that in a "desperate" but "futile" attempt to save Jackson's life, ER doctors tried to resuscitate him [Jackson] and restart his heart with a balloon pump, after discussing the procedure with Murray.
- "Dr. Murray did ask me one thing ... that we not give up easily, and try to save Mr. Michael Jackson's life,"
- "Even before the balloon pump placement, we made an agreement with Dr. Murray that this would be the last attemped procedure on Mr. Jackson," Nguyen added. "We'd like to prepare Dr. Murray mentally to accept the fact that Mr. Jackson could not be rescued and would allow Mr. Jackson to depart in peace and with dignity. So we proposed that if this would not work, we would call it stop. We would not try other procedures."
- When Jackson was brought into the hospital and she asked him what had occurred, he told her he gave Jackson two separate, two-milligram doses of Ativan -- also known as lorazepam -- via IV to help him sleep. Murray said that he momentarily left Jackson's bedroom, and discovered that the singer had stopped breathing.
-However, Murray could not say when he administered the doses. Nor could he answer when he discovered that Jackson had stopped breathing, or how long it was between when Jackson went down and when the 911 call was placed.
-"He said he did not have any concept of time. [that] he did not have a watch," Nguyen testified.
-"Dr. Murray answered negatively to my question as to whether there were any sedatives or narcotics involved." Nguyen added.
4.Volunteer medical assistant Consuelo NG, stated tho not one of the three people working in Dr. Murray's Office (including herself) was a licensed nurse.
Food For Thought Discussion:
Why did Dr. Murray repeatedly not mention the fact that he had given Michael propofol? Was it because he was aware that propofol is not used to treat insomnia? Was it because he knew it was not to be used outside of a medical facility and he did not want to raise any eyebrows?
Murray appeared to be clearly concerned and devastated over the inability to resuscitate Michael so Why did he not call 911 immediately upon discovering that Michael was in distress? Why did he not have the proper resuscitation equipment to resuscitate Michael himself? did the fact that he had previously filed for bankruptcy and the fact that he was being sued multiple times for child support, cause him not to be able to afford the proper equipment? What equipment was he using in his offices for his patients or were all of his procedures performed at hospitals?
Why was Murray making calls and sending data? Had he become so used to giving Michael propofol and other sleep medications that it had become routine for him. Had this routine become so natural for him that he had no cause to think that something would go wrong THIS time? How often was Murray administering these drugs to Michael?
Why is there a discrepancy in Murray's version of events amongst the two attending ER physicians? Why did he tell Cooper he was there to witness the arrest and tell Nguyen that he returned to find Michael not breathing? Did he intentionally mislead these physicians or was he caught up in the moment and just had a momentarily memory lapse.
Why did Murray not have a licensed nurse working at his doctors office? Were the assistants he had working for him licensed in any capacity to provide the procedural assistance that they sometimes provided?
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