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Did Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery of How Anesthesia Works?

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Today the most commonly used anesthetic is propofol, which happens to be highly lipid soluble. It’s also the medication made infamous in 2009 as the drug Michael Jackson allegedly “overdosed” on. Michael Jackson didn’t overdose on propofol. He was using it to sleep, which can’t be achieved with an anesthetic. So many things went wrong that night but the truth is, MJs death started way earlier. 25 years earlier on a soundstage in 1984 and the chain of events of that day directly led to Michael Ja

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