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Christopher Daniel Duntsch (born April 3, 1971) [1] is a former American neurosurgeon who has been nicknamed Dr. D. and Dr. Death [2] for 33 incidents of gross neurosurgical malpractice while working at hospitals in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, which maimed 31 patients and caused 2 deaths. [3]
Oct 24, 2016 · Plano surgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies. This is the shocking story of Dr. Death, a madman with a scalpel.
- Matt Goodman
- Promising Beginnings
- The Downward Spiral of Christopher Duntsch
- The Victims of Dr. Death
- The Downfall Christopher Duntsch and His Life Behind Bars
Christopher Daniel Duntsch was born in Montana on April 3, 1971, and raised alongside his three siblings in an affluent suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. His father was a missionary and physical therapist and his mother was a school teacher. Duntsch received his undergraduate degree from the University of Memphis and stayed in town to receive an M.D. a...
Around 2006 and 2007, Duntsch began to become unhinged. According to Megan Kane, an ex-girlfriend of one of Duntsch’s friends, she saw him eat a paper blotter of LSD and take prescription painkillers on his birthday. She also said that he kept a pile of cocaine on his dresser in his home office. Kane also recalled a cocaine- and LSD-fueled night of...
Over the course of two years, Christopher Duntsch operated on 38 patients in the Dallas area. Of those 38, 31 were left paralyzed or seriously injured and two of them died from surgical complications. Through it all, Duntsch was able to lure patient after patient under his knife was his extreme confidence. Dr. Mark Hoyle, a surgeon who worked with ...
Dr. Death was fired before the end of his first week for the damage he’d inflicted on Brown and Efurd. After several more months of botched surgeries, Duntsch finally lost his surgical privileges altogether in June 2013 after two physicians complained to the Texas Medical Board. In July 2015, a grand jury indicted Dr. Death on five counts of aggrav...
- Caroline Redmond
Jun 11, 2019 · According to Rolling Stone magazine, of Duntsch’s 38 patients, 31 were left permanently paralyzed or seriously injured, and two died. Those in the Texas medical community began to talk of the need for a criminal investigation while prosecutors looked into what course of action to take.
Jul 16, 2021 · Those are the words that Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a Dallas neurosurgeon, wrote to his girlfriend in 2011 — in the midst of a two-year period that left 33 of his 38 patients maimed, wounded or...
The hit podcast series, “Dr. Death” examined the story of Dallas neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch who was sentenced to life in prison after killing two of his patients and maiming dozens more...
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Jul 14, 2021 · Christopher Duntsch is confirmed to have injured 31 patients and killed two patients during his time as a neurosurgeon in Dallas, Texas. In addition, he is the first doctor to be convicted of a crime committed in the operating room during the act of surgery.
