CHRISTOPER Duntsch, also known as Dr. Death, was a doctor who seriously harmed and killed patients during surgeries in hospitals across Texas. The story of Duntsch is featured in a new Peacock show titled Dr. Death, unleashing the terrifying reality. How many people did Christopher Duntsch kill? Between 2011 and 2013, Duntsch worked on 37 […]
CHRISTOPER Duntsch, also known as Dr. Death, was a doctor who seriously harmed and killed patients during surgeries in hospitals across Texas.
The story of Duntsch is featured in a new Peacock show titled Dr. Death, unleashing the terrifying reality.
Between 2011 and 2013, Duntsch worked on 37 patients in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, harming 31 and killing two patients, according to TIME.
Suffering from major blood loss, Kellie Martin was one of the patients that died after the surgery.
Floella Brown’s vertebral artery was sliced, which triggered a stroke and caused her to die as well.
Other patients experienced nerve damage, permanent paralysis, chronic pain, and additional injuries that left them in worse condition than before their surgery.
Duntsch’s childhood friend, Jerry Summers, was one of the harmed victims who woke up as a quadriplegic.
In a 2011 email to an employee, Duntsch wrote, “I am ready to leave the love and kindness and goodness and patience that I mix with everything else that I am and become a cold blooded killer,” according to The Dallas Morning News.
The email was submitted as evidence at a hearing to reduce Duntsch’s $60,000 bail after he was arrested for multiple assault charges in 2015.
The charges included serious injuries and one count of injury to a child, disabled or elderly person.
Dallas police suspect that Duntsch affected at least 10 other people’s spinal surgeries in Dallas and Plano between November 2011 and June 2013, according to a search warrant The Dallas Morning News received.
In 2017, Duntsch was sentenced to life in prison.
In the warrant, police wrote, Duntsch “knowingly takes actions that place the patients’ lives at risk,” when referring to a patient who suffered a bad hemorrhage that killed her and another who had a surgical sponge placed inside his body.
