Health Care & Hospital Law,
Criminal
Oct. 6, 2011
Trial of Dr. Conrad Murray: What does it really mean?
Medical responsibility is the real lesson behind the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray.
Bruce G. Fagel
Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & AssociatesPhone: (310) 516-9035
Email: brucefagel@fagellaw.com
Whittier College School of Law
Bruce G. Fagel is licensed to practice medicine and is founder of the Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & Associates. He served as a consultant on medical malpractice law to the California Judicial Counsel Committee, which wrote the new CACI jury instructions. He can be reached at brucefagel@fagellaw.com
On a legal level, the criminal trial charging Dr. Conrad Murray with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson is much closer to a medical malpractice case than to a typical criminal case. From this trial, the public will learn about the meaning of terms like "standard of care," "causation," and "battle of the experts," which are basic to every medical malpractice case. While most of the public and much of the press have already decided that Murray is responsible for Jackson...
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