Death' Dallas surgeon Randall Kirby discusses … Glidewell, now 54, had been living on disability because of an accident a decade earlier. Duntsch arrived at the hospital about 45 minutes after Efurd’s surgery had been set to start, Kissinger said. Now, that friend, Christopher Duntsch, is on trial in a Dallas courtroom after several patients were seriously injured during surgery and two died. In January 2014, he was pulled over by police in southern Denver around 3:30 a.m. Officers said he was driving on the left side of the road with two flat tires. “Jerry was calm with Chris,” said Jennifer Miller, then Summers’ girlfriend, “but all Jerry would say to me is: ‘I want to die. Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Even after Henderson’s repairs, Efurd never regained her mobility and now uses a wheelchair. Prosecutors also claimed that in a 2011 email to a girlfriend, Duntsch said he would “become a cold-blooded killer.”. All but one of those cases have been closed. Summers and Duntsch were friends in junior high who lost touch after high school. By the time he returned home to attend Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis), he had exhausted his eligibility. Christopher Duntsch’s surgical outcomes were so outlandishly poor that Texas prosecuted him for harming patients. “What happens sometimes is that doctors are allowed to resign in lieu of discipline so that the hospital can protect its perceived legal liability from the doctor,” said Van Wey, the Dallas trial lawyer. He received a confidential settlement but said, “It wasn’t much.” He took more solace from the criminal case. Death.’. “Nothing has changed from when I picked Duntsch to do my surgery,” Glidewell said.
Soon after, he left to join Dallas Medical Centre. Among them is Jackie Troy, who woke up from her operation unable to talk when the doctor left all but one of her vocal cords paralysed. But while Duntsch is adapting to his new life behind bars, many of his victims are still picking up the pieces of their own. The decision came almost a week after the Dallas County jury convicted Duntsch of first-degree felony injury to an elderly person. His Co-Defendant Could Help Set Him Free. A los funcionarios electorales les gustaría que dejara de hacerlo.
“When asked about Dr. Duntsch’s weaknesses or areas for improvement, the supervising physician communicated that the only weakness Duntsch had was that he took on too many tasks for one person.”, In 2010, Boop faxed a recommendation for Duntsch to Baylor-Plano, checking off “good” or “excellent” in boxes asking about his skills and noting, “Chris is extremely bright and possibly the hardest working person I have ever met.” Another supervisor, Dr. Jon Robertson, who was an old family friend of the Duntsches and an investor in DiscGenics, noted on his recommendation that Duntsch had an “excellent work ethic.” (A University of Tennessee attorney said Robertson could not respond to questions.). Since I am going to sue you or [sic] libel and slander of a criminal nature, this might be a good point to defend this comment.” He called Morguloff’s surgery “a perfect success.”. She had come to Duntsch for cervical spine surgery to ease her worsening neck and shoulder pain. “We couldn’t find anyone.”. Duntsch was sent to an impaired physicians program and then was allowed to return to his residency program.
But many of Duntsch’s patients were disabled when they came to him, or older, or had lower incomes. Hospital administrators called Dr. Robert Henderson, a Dallas spine surgeon, to try to repair the damage. He then picked out a pair of trousers and put them on in a dressing room.
It was at University General that Glidewell had his neck surgery, knowing none of Duntsch’s by then two-year history of botching operations. Dr. Death premiered on September 4, 2018, and consists of 10 terrifying episodes hosted by Laura Beil. Before we even get to Mary Efurd, you can see that it’s just ... it’s going downhill. In a 2012 phone call recorded by a Texas doctor who contacted Boop because he was alarmed by Duntsch’s surgical errors, Boop acknowledged that an anonymous woman had filed a complaint against Duntsch, saying he was using drugs before seeing patients.
Duntsch would continue to operate. To suspend a physician’s license, there has to be a pattern of patient injury. And Summers still can't move.
"He said, 'Yes,' " Martin told jurors, his voice breaking. A neurosurgeon hired to review her case would later determine that Duntsch had both pierced and blocked her vertebral artery with a misplaced screw.
You can’t sell our material separately or syndicate it. (Representatives of DiscGenics declined to be interviewed for this story.). He filed a complaint that called Dunstch a sociopath who, if not stopped, would "continue to maim and kill innocent patients.". Since Texas enacted tort reform in 2003, reducing the amount of damages plaintiffs could win, the number of malpractice payouts per year has dropped by more than half. Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, When Mary awoke from a back operation, she screamed in pain and found her legs weren't working, Dr Christopher Duntsch had a habit of botching his surgeries and maiming his patients, Mary was left wheelchair bound after he treated her for back pain, People disfigured by 'Dr Death' Christopher Duntsch speak out against the surgeon, Duntsch has faced claims of negligence from over 30 patients he has operated on, Lee Passmore describes the pain of his botched operation as being like an ice pick inserted into his back, How Christopher Duntsch cut vocal chords and botched spine ops, The surgeon thought of himself as a a cross between God and the Antichrist, Dr Duntsch even described himself as a 'cold-blooded killer', Kellie Martin died of massive blood loss after an operation at the hands of Dr Death, Patient Philip Mayfield was left paralysed by horror doctor Christopher Duntsch, Jeff Glidewell was left with a sponge lodged in his throat, Jerry Summers' life was changed forever by the nightmare of a botched operation, Jerry left Dr Death's operating theatre as a quadriplegic, The negligent doctor is now being made the subject of a true-crime podcast, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). D Magazine, Dallas’ monthly glossy, published a cover story in 2016 with the headline “Dr. Death,' Dallas neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch, Dallas County just broke its all-time early voting record, Dallas County reports 533 confirmed coronavirus cases, 4 deaths; Tarrant County adds 848 cases, Senate GOP races to place Barrett on Supreme Court despite Democrats’ efforts to stall, Cornyn’s 18-year Senate record more nuanced, less warm and fuzzy, than his curated TV ads, Texas Senate hopeful MJ Hegar tries to woo suburban centrists while mobilizing progressive Democrats, Texas appeals court upholds order against Gov.
As she and other prosecutors contacted every person Duntsch had ever operated on or their survivors, they struggled to figure what crimes he could be charged with. Later in the trial, Kirby told jurors he sent information to the Texas Medical Board, warning them of Duntsch’s botched surgeries. A vascular surgeon who operated at Baylor-Plano, Dr. Randall Kirby, said he met Duntsch soon after he started and found him to be an arrogant know-it-all. Get email alerts on breaking news stories as soon as they happen. Duntsch severed a major artery in patient Kelli Martin's spine, causing her to bleed to death. … I never got that kind of report from the nursing staff.”, D Magazine reported that in July 2016, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office followed through and a grand jury returned five indictments of aggravated assault and one of harming an elderly person. (The Troy family would not comment for this story.)
The next day, while Duntsch operated on Efurd, Brown was declared brain-dead. At the time, Passmore was an investigator in the Collin County Medical Examiner’s office, just north of Dallas. “I went and started doing my own research,” she said.
All rights reserved. According to a report by Public Citizen, a consumer watchdog group, about half the hospitals in the country had never reported a doctor to the databank by 2009. Kill me. Before Duntsch was ever charged, he sent an email in December 2011 to one of his employees confessing to the desire to kill.
Reluctantly, Glidewell went ahead. His cybermanifesto ran to more than 80 pages when printed out. For other inquiries, Contact Us. "I don't remember feeling any pain," Summers testified in a video played Monday for jurors. Duntsch was found to have intentionally injured his patients, and was sentenced to life in prison. "With the exception of pain management clinics and anesthesiologists, the board doesn’t have the authority to inspect a doctor, or to start an investigation on its own.". "The sad fact is as patients we really can’t find out a lot about our doctors, so they just didn’t know," she said. “The medical community system has a problem,” Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Martin said in a press conference after the verdict. View our online Press Pack. But Duntsch quickly got into trouble. Created by Patrick Macmanus.
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