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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Criminal

Nov. 10, 2011

The verdict is in: Lessons learned from the Michael Jackson trial

Dr. Conrad Murray's attorneys ran with a classic defense straight out of the medical malpractice playbook.

Bruce G. Fagel

Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & Associates

Phone: (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

A doctor administering a powerful anesthetic agent to a patient in a home setting without vital sign monitors or resuscitation equipment is such an extreme departure from any acceptable standard of care that even Dr. Conrad Murray's own medical expert could not justify it. While such negligence may sound like a one of a kind aberration in the practice of medicine, it is not.

There are nurses in intensive care units in hospitals across the country who routinely turn of...

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