), Photo: He claimed to work as a bioscience consultant and researcher, and maintained his innocence. On June 26, the board held an emergency meeting and suspended Duntschs license. Duntsch appealed his sentence and lost the appeal in 2018. Baylor brought in a senior surgeon to fix the damage to Summers spine. The jury found Duntsch guilty of injury to an elderly person (Efurd), and sentenced him to life in prison. He told Young that Morgan was his assistant and there was nothing romantic going on between the pair. In the second, while doing a cervical fusion on a woman named Floella Brown, Duntsch removed a bone from an area that was not required by any clinical or anatomical standards, resulting in injury to the vertebral artery, according to Texas Medical Board records. But as in many other areas in Texasbenzene pollution from hydraulic fracturing sites; ammonium nitrate pileups at fertilizer plantsMartins death and Summers paralysis fell into a regulatory no mans land. Sometimes hell have bedtime stories and try to be as normal as possible.". Many of his patients suffered severe spinal cord damage, resulting in paralysis and pain severe enough to render painkillers ineffective. Who Were The Victims Of Dr. Christopher Duntsch? | True Crime Buzz Public Citizen concluded that the board moves slowly because its understaffed and underfunded. And because the story of what he's accused of doing to 33 patients he operated on while . But Young would never get the happy ending she had envisioned with the doctor. You're probably asking, How could Duntsch have gotten away with a string of botched surgeries? The problem, she said, isnt staff. He was the eldest of four.They described him as the bright, precocious little boy who had taken care of a sick bird and loved dogs. He did not make his mark, just not the one that he expected. Jurors heard from Duntschs father, mother, brother and a family friend who sought to appeal to the sympathies of the jury. We have to consider the uncomfortable possibility that Christopher Duntsch is to the medical system what the recent West explosion was to the fertilizer industrya regrettable tragedy, but the price of living in a free-market system. Per Bustle, Christopher is currently incarcerated at O.B. The board forbade Arafiles to supervise nurses or physician assistants anymore. He was horrified to realize that Duntsch was going to keep practicing. I think their rationale was, hes a trained neurosurgeon, a combined M.D.-Ph.D., Henderson said. Young told D Magazine the incident had simply been a misunderstanding after she had given birth to the couples second son and had asked Duntsch to bring Aiden to the hospital to meet his new brother. 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Christopher, known as Dr Death, was Jerry's friend and the surgeon who performed the botched operation on him in 2011 Credit: Dallas County Sheriff's office. Dallas Magazine states that Duntsch became key in supplying samples to scientists for research. Kimberly Morgan is the former assistant and ex-girlfriend of Christopher Duntsch, nicknamed Dr Death. Plano's Baylor hospital faces hard questions after claims against 'Dr. Death': Texas Neurosurgeon Sentenced to Life in Prison - People In 2007, he was found to be leaving presigned prescription pads with his nurse so she could prescribe controlled substances while he was away, according to Public Citizen. The procedure can improve stability in the back, according to the Mayo Clinic, and relieve pain. Mr. Brown was later found unresponsive in her hospital room and staff couldnt contact Duntsch for 90 minutes, according to those records. Christopher Duntsch, 46, was initially charged with five counts of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury and one count of injuring an elderly person, 1 but the trial focused on the last charge, which alleged that Duntsch deliberately harmed Mary Efurd, then aged 72, in a 2012 operation that left her in a wheelchair. What Happened To Jerry Summers, 'Dr. Death' Christopher Duntsch's are both available to stream on Peacock now. The surgery, he said, beaming into the camera, was a resounding success. According to Baylor, Duntsch had clinical privileges when he resigned. Dr Deathis a new limited series about the rise and fall of Duntsch. The medical malpractice cap and the near-immunity for hospitals snapped two threads from the regulatory web. So why didnt he stop? Shughart said. "Dr. Death" and the companion docuseries "Dr. Death: The Undoctored Story" are both available to stream on Peacock now. Christopher Duntsch and Jerry Summers weren't only best friends - they took care of one another.

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