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Propofol: the drug that killed Michael Jackson
November 7, 2011 By Peter Wehrwein, Contributor, Harvard Health
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If you’ve been following the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s personal physician (not surprisingly, the Los Angeles Times has had the most complete coverage), today’s guilty verdict wasn’t a surprise.
''Prosecutors built a strong case that the 50-year-old “king of pop” died after Dr. Conrad Murray had given Jackson a large dose of propofol (pronounced PRO-poe-fall), a powerful anesthetic, to help him sleep and then left him unattended.''
Murray’s defense team spun a theory that Jackson gave himself the lethal dose.