Let's see what Oprah's favorite Doctors - Dr Oz and Dr Roizen
said regarding the Michael Jackson medical issues...
Could the Drug Michael Jackson Liked -- Propofol -- Have Played a Role in His Death?
If you Googled “Roizen and propofol” before Michael Jackson’s death, you would have found more references to it (4,210!) than CNN repeats of the 9/11 tape.
So Mehmet asked Mike why he was quoted so much.
Turns out Mike may have been the first U.S. doc to do tests on propofol (brand name Diprivan), the powerful anxiety-erasing anesthetic that was found in the star’s home after his death.
Mike also led two research groups that did key studies on the drug.
So for this feature, we transcribed our conversation about propofol.
Q. When a celebrity dies, like Michael Jackson say, you and other medical people in the media get called on to break down what happened without necessarily having firsthand information. Does that make you uncomfortable?
A. I was out of the country when he died so I actually haven’t done any media on Michael Jackson’s death. But a loss like his is one you have to put in context on a much broader scale. What can we learn from it? If we do talk about Michael Jackson I want to talk about him in the context of the pain he felt in his life that many of us feel in our lives, and why abusing medication to numb ourselves is a very understandable human response to the pain we feel.
Source:
www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2009/09/12/dr_oz_will_see_you_on_his_own_show/
Unrelated to the Michael Jackson discussion, but still interesting...
Dr. Oz to Oprah and Michael J Fox:
"The stem cell debate is dead."
