Steven Shafer, MD, professor of anesthesiology at Columbia University and editor in chief of the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia, will testify as an expert witness about propofol in the trial of Michael Jackson's personal physician, Conrad Murray, MD, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
Dr. Shafer was retained by the prosecutors in the case.
One of the reports Dr. Shafer prepared for the case said that if Mr. Jackson had taken the propofol orally, 99 percent of it would have been metabolized by the liver before entering the bloodstream and not caused any adverse side effects.
Defense attorneys have said that Mr. Jackson drank or injected the drug.
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Dr. Shafer was retained by the prosecutors in the case.
One of the reports Dr. Shafer prepared for the case said that if Mr. Jackson had taken the propofol orally, 99 percent of it would have been metabolized by the liver before entering the bloodstream and not caused any adverse side effects.
Defense attorneys have said that Mr. Jackson drank or injected the drug.
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Harvard Anesthesiologist Answers: What Is Propofol?
Patients Protest Use of Propofol Following Michael Jackson's Death, Physicians Say
Criminal Charges Rising Against Physicians for Painkiller Overdoses