Los Angeles, July 09: Michael Jackson’s long-time dermatologist said Wednesday that he tried to limit his patient’s drug intake and never gave him the powerful hospital sedative that has been linked to the pop icon’s death. “I was not one of the doctors who participated in giving him overdoses of drugs or too much of anything,” Dr Arnold Klein said in an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America. “In fact, I was the one who limited everything, who stopped everything.”
The interview aired a day after Jackson’s widely viewed memorial in Los Angeles, and as police are still investigating how he came into the possession of anesthetic Diprivan, which could have caused the cardiac arrest that killed him on June 25, aged 50.
“How am I going to prescribe Diprivan when I don’t know how to use it?” said Klein, who added that Jackson had been in good health and spirit the last time Klein saw him, three days before he died.
–Agencies