PHOENIX, Arizona – The Grenada-born doctor of the late American superstar Michael Jackson leaped to the rescue and possibly saved a life when a female airline passenger fainted at 30,000 feet in the air and needed urgent medical attention.
Dr Conrad Murray, 57, who is accused of administering a powerful painkiller that killed Jackson, was aboard a US Airways flight from Houston, Texas, to Phoenix, Arizona yesterday, when a flight attendant asked on the loudspeaker if there was a doctor on board.
Murray – a cardiologist, who grew up in Trinidad – jumped out of his seat and evaluated the woman, believed to be 23 and had “a very weak pulse”.
He inserted an IV and stabilized her until the flight could make an emergency landing in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“We're not surprised,” said Miranda Sevcik, a member of Murray’s legal defence team in his involuntary manslaughter case.
“He's a good doctor, we've always said he was a good doctor, and what good doctors do is save people,” she added.
Jackson, 50, was about to launch a world comeback tour when he died last June.
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