Michael Jackson’s doctor may lose his medical licence while he faces trial in the King of Pop’s death.

Photo: Michael Jackson after innumerable cosmetic surgeries

California’s medical board will ask the judge to order Dr. Conrad Murray not to practice medicine as a condition of his bail when he appears in a Los Angeles court Monday.

Murray pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in February, after which a judge prohibited him from using any anesthesia on patients, but refused the prosecution’s request to suspend his licence.

The state is trying again with a new judge in charge of the case.

Murray currently has no California patients, although he has resumed his medical practices in Houston, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ed Chernoff, Murray’s lawyer, said the doctor is “hanging on by a thread” financially and could not afford to pay for his legal defense if he loses his medical license.

The Los Angeles coroner said Jackson’s death on June 25 last year was the result of “acute propofol intoxication.”

Murray told investigators he gave Jackson propofol, a powerful anesthetic, to help him sleep.

TMZ broke the story that Murray’s defense will be that Michael Jackson caused his own death by pumping a lethal dose of Propofol into his own body during the time the doctor was out of the room. As one source said, Jackson liked the sensation of Propofol being administered by IV, adding, “Michael liked to push it.”

Investigators took a picture of the pop star’s room, which showed an empty Propofol bottle on the floor, beneath the nightstand by Jackson’s bed. The defense will argue Jackson took the bottle from the nightstand, injected himself and then dropped the bottle

Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson’s father, said he was horrified by the defense strategy.

He told TMZ: “I don’t believe it. It’s not true. Why would he [Dr. Murray] hide all the bottles if such a story were true?”

Joe Jackson plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against Murray.

Michael Jackson’s sister, Janet Jackson, has blamed Murray for the pop star’s death.

On the Oprah Winfrey Show, Janet held the doctor responsible for her brother’s death. On being asked by Oprah if she believed the doctor was at blame, Janet said yes, adding that the doctor was the one administering the drug.