UCLA cardiologist Dr. Thao Nguyen testifies - Day 5 -

Dr. Thao Nguyen, the cardiologist who was called into Michael Jackson's trauma room, said Murray "did not have any concept of time."
Dr. Thao Nguyen, said Murray told her he didn’t wear a watch and had no idea what time he had given to Jackson Lorazepam or found him not breathing, despite he had previously sadi he was in the room when Micahel had the heart attack. She said he seemed “devastated” and urged her to try extreme measures.

“Do not give up easily. Please try to save his life,” Nguyen recalled Murray saying.

“In Dr. Murray’s mind, if we called it quits at that time, it would be giving up easily,” Nguyen said. “It's not a case of too little, too late. It seems like a case of too late.”

“Propofol does not have an antidote, so we have to prepare for the worst,” Nguyen said. She also said she had never heard of anyone using propofol in a home setting without respiratory and heart monitors.

Nguyen said she was called to the emergency room when she received a page saying that a VIP patient, Michael Jackson, had been admitted to the hospital.

“By the time I came down, the patient appeared lifeless,” Nguyen said. “I couldn’t find a pulse. My attending couldn’t find a pulse.”

But Murray told Nguyen’s attending physician that he had detected a pulse so, acting in “good faith,” Nguyen said, she and her team continued to attempt to resuscitate Jackson. They made an agreement with Murray that if another attempt and resuscitation efforts with a balloon pump proved futile, she said, they would pronounce him dead.

She added that when she “specifically asked” Murray if Jackson had taken any other sedatives or narcotics, “his reply was negative.”

Dr. Joanne Pashard (pictured below), a Houston doctor, testified that in the morning of june 25, 2009, she called Murray asking him about one of his patients, who was about to undergo surgery in Texas. She said Murray had no problem recalling detailed information about the patient and tehrefore she was impressed.

Prosecutors then called on Antoinette Gill, a former Murray's patient, testifies about not being given a referral to another doctor after Murray abondoned his practice.

Granddaughter of former Murray patient and volunteer at Murray's office in Las Vegas, Consuelo Ng, said she talked to Murray at 8:49 the morning of June 25, and Bridgette Morgan, one of Murray's three girlfriends. Morgan said she called Murray at 11:26 am on June 25. 

Prosecutors argue that Murray was distracted and inattentive in the moments Michael Jackson went into serious distress.