Conrad Murray
In 2011, Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death for having inadvertently overdosed him with a powerful surgical anesthetic, propofol, which was being improperly used as a bedtime sleep agent.Conrad Robert Murray was born on February 19, 1953, and was raised by his maternal grandparents, who were farmers in Grenada until he joined his mother, Milta, in Trinidad and Tobago when he was seven years old.[2] Murray worked at the Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego as an associate director of its cardiology fellowship training program.[5] In 2018, Murray released a memoir, This Is It!, which detailed his experience as Michael Jackson's physician and tells of having treated Mother Teresa.Club called the book "literary poison with no antidote"[6] and The Daily Telegraph said that any revelations it contains are "mired in several thousand words of self-aggrandising, poorly punctuated and repetitive text.He was married to Blanche, his second wife, whom he met at medical school, and helped pay rent for another woman, Nicole Alvarez.Court documents released in August 2009 revealed that the coroner's preliminary conclusion indicated that Jackson overdosed on propofol.[16][17] Though any FDA-approved drug can be used off-label in a responsible manner that is medically appropriate for their patient,[18] the indicated use for propofol is for anesthesia—not as a sleep aid—and is therefore properly given in a hospital or a clinical setting with close monitoring.Accordingly, propofol is supposed to be administered on the orders of an anesthesiologist, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), critical care physician (intensivist), or an emergency medicine physician who received extensive training in the use and monitoring of anesthetics; Murray had no such specialty training.