We moved in together within three months, and then I became pregnant.. Shes 33 now and doesnt live in Dallas anymore. While the school refused to verify or deny his claims, he wasn't in any of the yearbooks of that time. Finally, in July 2015, the Dallas County District Attorneys Office followed through. Wendy Renee Young and Christopher Duntsch were parents of two kids, Preston and Aiden. But Morguloffs suit describes him being in excruciating pain and telling nurses that his pain was a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. Who else is left? The 78-year-old Denton County man was then Dr. Christopher Duntsch's first patient when the surgeon started performing spinal fusions in 2011. So, I went back to Dallas. A bold pronouncement, yet after just one sloppy, dangerous surgery, Hoyle vowednever to work with Duntsch again. I look at my children, I felt like, How am I gonna explain this to them?. His pain management specialist advised against an operation. Since receiving his life sentence, Dr Death is currently housed in the O.B. A husband and wife pair of Russian stem cell scientists, Valery Kukekov and Tatyana Ignatova entered the picture. Duntsch declined a jailhouse interview, but he has called the allegations preposterous. [7] The new true crime show, which comes out Thursday, tells the story of promising-turned-disgraced surgeon, Dr. Christopher Duntsch (played by Jackson), who was accused of maiming and killing his more than two dozed patients. Duntsch had only been in the Dallas area for a few months. But that isn't the scariest part. Dr. Duntsch eventually began a long-term romantic relationship with Wendy Renee Young while in Memphis. It still feels as if his feet are asleep. While some called his eventual downfall greed-related, who knows what evil the human mind is capable of. His investors took him to court. Kukekov had discovered stem cells in human brain tumors, which presented a huge potential for the development of new cancer drugs. He didnt contact a lawyer, although he wrestled with the decision. What isscarierare the 12 names that follow his. Duntschs reputation took another dive in April of 2015 when he was arrested for shoplifting at a local Walmart. "Dr. Death," which was shot earlier this year in the Albuquerque area and debuted July 15 on the Peacock streaming service, is the story of Christopher Duntsch, who is now serving a life sentence . If he wasnt doing research, he was out with Jerry Summers, partying, Morgan said in the deposition. In an article in Texas Observer,author SaulElbein says that one of the doctors he spoke to likened Duntsch to Hannibal Lecter three times in eight minutes. Dr. Death might not have cared about being a surgeon, just the prestige that came with it. Kane dated Summers for a year. Duntsch filed patents for each discovery, and two companies were soon created. I dont know what it is, she said. They would later have two children. Robb is known for her roles as Bethany Hamilton in Soul Surfer, Lacey in The Act, and Violet Beauregarde in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Morgan didnt follow Duntsch after Baylor Plano. Its hard to find good conversation with a random person, Young says. The hospital saved face and avoided any lawsuits. Meanwhile, Duntsch was struggling financially and started racking up a series of strange arrests. He said, Its not your case, its another case, and were looking into it. I trust that man wholly. But, he says, It all started coming together in my head that this isnt a one-time mistake.. Next week marks the five-year anniversary of Texas neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch being sentenced to life in prison. Young and Duntsch have two sons. Did these doctors truly not see though Duntsch? According to ProPublica, Boop was aware of a complaint Duntsch used drugs before seeing patients. Hospitals are liable only if the plaintiff can prove that the hospital was also malicious, that it knew of the risk and ignored it. It took the Texas Medical Board one whole year to investigate and finally revoke Duntsch's license. Duntsch made a major miscalculation when he ventured south into Dallas to practice. According to court documents, Rimlawi soon grew suspicious of Duntsch. In September 2014, after he and Young had separated, Duntsch was arrested for jumping the fence of Youngs sisters Garland home and attempting to take their child, Aiden. You, my child, are the only one between me and the other side, he wrote. "Dr. Death: The Undoctored Story" and the scripted series "Dr. Death," starring Joshua Jackson, Alec Baldwin and Christian Slaterare both available to stream on Peacock now. Nobody stopped him soon enough. They numbed the pain radiating from his lower back, down each of his legs. Duntsch suspected that this had something to do with his vodka bottle and neurostimulants. It said he was $1 million in debt. Hoyles job was to cut Passmore open and sew him up, and on December 30, 2011, he made a small incision just above the 36-year-olds groin and moved the blood vessels and organs out of the way, allowing Duntsch clear access to the lower spine to remove a herniated disc. He had a room upstairs in the Plano house. His next patient, Floella Brown was 63. I'm the only clean minimally invasive guy in the whole state." He stayed in New York while everyone. At morning meetings, Page would see Duntsch mixing a vodka orange. The original patent still holds, and hopefully, Discgenics would be able to break out of the Dr. Death shadow todo some real anti-cancer work instead. He grew up in a middle-class suburb with a teacher mom and a missionary/physical therapist dad. He says that surgery happened earlier in the week, and that it was he who called Rimlawi and asked him to check on the patient. It said, Anyone close to me thinks that I likely am something between god, einstein, and the antichrist. But its the only way to get anybody to listen. He thought surgery might give him some relief, eliminate the need for drugs, solve both problems at once. Digging into Christopher Duntsch's personal and professional life, Dr. Death paints a detailed portrait of a possible sociopath. His father was a missionary and physical therapist and his mother was a school teacher. He kept her on after splitting from Rimlawi and Won. The good-looking but eerie Jamie Dornan. Summers declined an interview in Memphis and would not answer questions on the phone. To say that this e-mail proved that Duntsch was notfit to be a doctor would be completely correct. She told D Magazine they named the boys Aiden and Preston. On July 1, 2011, Duntsch and Baylor Plano agreed to an inducement deal. And yet the actual tragedy is that someone could have stopped it. Baylor calls the allegations against it extremely frustrating and difficult and reiterates that Duntsch came with references from multiple sources who worked with him in his residency and fellowship training programs., To put these misleading allegations into fair context, Baylor Plano is part of a hospital system that has made substantial investments over several decades to continuously enhance the quality of care we provide our patients, and we have gained many recognitions for these processes. Because how can I do anything I want and cross every discipline boundary like its [sic] a playground and never ever lose., Duntsch also said he was prepared to embrace the very darkest part of himself. (She says this was a misunderstanding, that she had asked him to retrieve Aiden and bring him to the hospital.) They described him as the bright, precocious little boy who had taken. While staying with his parents outside Denver, he was stopped for driving under the influence. DiscGenics' mission is to improve the lives of those debilitated by degenerative diseases of the spine through development of innovative regenerative therapies. Because of a valuable patent the company owned, they let him through the gates and out into the world. Martin, it turned out, had bled to death in the intensive care unit while undergoing a relatively common procedure known as a laminectomy, which involves removing spongy tissue between the discs to relieve pressure. Then he also took prescription painkillers and ate a paper blotter of LSD. Of that set, two died and 31 were paralyzed or seriously injured. He had a lot of animus to me personally. Wendy has reportedly been keeping a low-profile life since ending her relationship with Duntsch and since he went to prison. Duntsch filed for bankruptcy and was arrested in Denver for driving under the influence on Jan. 10, 2014, according to local station KCNC-TV. Unlike Summers, Brown, 63, suffered from hypertension and was a stroke risk. I have lost both companies. He would file for bankruptcy years later, and the filings show that Duntsch has had no managerial role with Discgenics since 2012, when he was removed as a board member and as chief science officer. Now, one of the several complaints against the . Like Dr Henderson, Dr Kirby is still a practicing doctor in real life. By November, he had surgical privileges to operate on patients. Beil is a journalist who has specialized in science and medical writing for 20 years, and lives in the Dallas area where much of Christopher Duntsch's story takes place. A few days later, Glidewelldeveloped a serious infection due to the sponge left in his throat. The evidence said otherwise. She also says they snorted cocaine from a small pile that he kept on a dresser in his home office. A neurosurgeon reviewing the case for the court found an errant screw had not only opened Brown's arterybut blocked it, and that Duntsch hadmisdiagnosed Brown, operating on the wrong area entirely. July 19, 2021 The former neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch was finally brought to justice after injuring and maiming over 30 of his patients during surgery and allegedly causing the deaths of two more. In 2005, partway through the six-year program,he became the director of the tissue bank. For the last three days, jurors listened to testimony in the . Photo: On April 9, 2013, Mayfield underwent surgery performed by Duntsch to remove a troublesome disk from his spine. Sort of. According to Duntsch's colleagueDr. Randall Kirby, Glidewell's procedure was so botched that"Duntsch was forcibly restrained from continuing the surgery by the [operating room] team.". You, my child, are the only one between me and the other side, he wrote. He did earnhis M.D., doing so well that he was among the 12 percent of medical school graduates in his class named to the elite Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. But hed make troubling, bizarre pronouncements, like Everybodys doing it wrong. He was ultimately convicted of injuring an elderly person in connection with Mary Efurds case and was sentenced to life behind bars. He projected that I was the source of a lot of his problems and difficulties.. He gained experience writing grants, and earned more than $3 million in local, state, and federal funding for research projects where he served as principal or co-principal investigator. In the two years he practiced as a spine surgeon across four Dallas institutions, Duntsch operated on 37 people. The nerve root had been amputated. Sadly, being moral and good aren't therequisites schools need to let someone become a doctor. Was it you? Young said in the docuseries. Morgan was present in the operating room during Passmores surgery. Seven more doctors voiced complaints before TMB finally canceled Dr. Death's license. His screams poured out of Baylor Planos intensive care unit and down the hallway, creating a panic in his mother. Anton Floquet/NBCUniversal, I knocked on my door. I dont know if hes there to harm me or what his true intentions were, Wendy Young said of the harrowing alleged encounter with Christopher Duntsch. The message alluded to a week where everything unraveled with their relationship. In July 2015, indictments came through. It was sent on a Friday at 4 am. Or, they should be: the scientists names are misspelled. The real question isn't why Dr. Duntsch did what he did. The shocking story of a madman with a scalpel. Duntsch says he was so distraught by Browns outcome that he placed a screw in Efurd 3 millimeters away from where it shouldve been, damaging a nerve root. Before he cheated, before he lied. An incredibly difficult thing to prove. Where is Christopher Duntsch now? Enjoy unlimited access to all of our incredible journalism, in print and digital. Like, he wasnt scared. The 30 Rock alum also heads up the cast of the Peacock series as a doctor, though he plays one of the surgeons working to take Duntsch down. Her bright blond hair is pulled back into a ponytail, and shes wearing a tank top with yoga pants. The doctor in the strange case is now 50 years old. They eventually went back to his home, dancing to music under a disco ball he had in his office. He was so appalled at the results of the procedures that he faxed a photo of Duntsch to the University of Tennessee to see if the surgeon was an impostor. And this was 10 months before Duntsch's last surgery. Duntsch was described asa precocious boy and a bright student. But thats all. It was the same with Dallas Medical Center where hedid not face any action. The autopsy had not been finished when Passmore accidentally saw the fax from Baylor Plano. St. Jude says there was no such program at the hospital at that time. The arrest report said he was driving on two flat tires. A veteran investigative reporter in the medical field, her voice enthralls. Duntsch was also arrested for driving under the influence while staying with his parents in Colorado and found himself in handcuffs another time in April of 2015 after he was arrested for stealing $887.30 in Walmart merchandise, according to the D Magazine. Duntsch's resume shows a doctorate in microbiology from the St. Jude Children'sResearch Hospital. The seeds of greed were sown. (Neither responded to requests for comment for this story.) He may have figured, at first, that he was protected. Duntsch hired Morgan while he was still with the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, and she began on August 29, 2011. Theres no blank here for that.. In it,was a mirror with cocaine and a rolled-up dollar bill on top. Martin was his first patient back, and it was the last operation he performed at that hospital. 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.. Prosecutors argued that the disgraced doctor had used his scalpel and hands as weapons to seriously injure or kill his patients. Neurosurgeon residents need to complete 1,000 surgeries as training requirements. And who will Dr. Death be? The 51-year-old recently starred in the USA true crime series, Dirty John, opposite Connie Britton. He said Youngwho by now had given birth to their son, Aidenwas just his secretary and friend. Philip is one of more than 30 people maimed by Dr. Christopher Duntsch, nicknamed Dr. Death by the media. We are committed to achieving this mission by delivering high-quality products that meet or exceed customer requirements. "A few weeks later I took my first son to visit him for Christmas and then I became pregnant," Young said. In Dallas, Duntsch developed a reputation of frequenting upscale bars and hotels where he partied with his lifelong best friend and personal assistant, Jerry Summers. They met as Duntsch was looking for opportunities in an operating room somewhere. But it was growing increasingly clear that his opportunities were running out. There is no way to communicate what happened there, without a 20-page document of disclosures and events and responsible parties, Duntsch once wrote of Brown and Efurd. He, too, had an injury to his left vertebral artery, and the incision was far from where it shouldve been and had begun to leak pus. After his license was revoked from the Texas Medical Board, Young and Duntsch were evicted from their home. She needed drug tests. His dad is a physical therapist. And not just Dallas County, I don't recall hearing about it anywhere." Nobody can recognize whether it was ours or not! Ignatova says. He promises to take all pain and suffering away. However, in the Peacock series, the couple is parents to only one child. James Gunn has used the 'Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special' as a "trojan horse" to introduce some elements of the upcoming third film in the series.The 40-minute holiday special features Drax (Dave Bautista) and Mantis' (Pom Klementieff) bid to help Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) rediscover his love of the festive season, but the director admitted the one-off Disney+ feature He also discovered a way to produce stem cells from intervertebral discs in cultures outside the body. She arrived brain-dead. Hoyle became so disturbed by Duntsch's actions that at one point he physically restrained him. In 2005, about a third of the way through the six-year program, department chairman Dr. Jon Robertson appointed him program director of the schools tissue bank, where hed supply samples to scientists and oversee two labs. Base compensation was $600,000 a year for two years, beginning on June 14, 2011. Was he was only in it for the research prestige and the money? Duntschmade the incision in the wrong place before nicking a vertebral artery, confusing the muscles in Glidewell's neck for a tumor, cutting into his vocal cords, and removing a piece of hisesophagus. I cried when they said life imprisonment, Young said of the verdict. Rohr is a very professional man, Passmore says. "You don't know this yet, but you will never walk again. But for his victims, the judgment was a big relief. He would climb a ladder and take aerial photos of crime scenes to aid in the death investigation. His license gone, Duntsch went off the rails. Duntschdestroyed the lives of numerous patients who were seeking relief from back problems. Christopher Duntschs case is perhaps unique to the justice systemits incredibly rare for a surgeon to be indicted, much less convicted, for the care he or she provided. He also had a credit card in his name connected to Duntschs account and would drive him around, balance his checkbooks, pick up dry cleaning. By December, Duntsch wrangled privileges at Legacy Surgery Center of Frisco, and Kirby, in his letter to the Texas Medical Board, narrated another grim outcome: Jacqueline Troys vocal cord was paralyzed, and her esophagus and trachea had become connected, an unheard of complication. A corrective surgery happened two weeks later, after she arrived at the emergency room of Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas, where Kirby practiced. DR Death, Peacocks new limited series starring Joshua Jackson, is based on a true story, and we have your look at photos comparing the cast with their real-life counterparts. Britney Spears claims she was 'scared of drunk dad Jamie' & family 'abandoned her to stay in beach house SHE bought', RHOBH's Erika Jayne breaks down in tears & admits she's 'lonely' after friends 'turned on her' when she went 'broke', Kendall Jenner stuns in an all-black gothic look for glam new photoshoot, Russell Brand defends his dog after pooch mauled wallaby to death on walk, Why odd double act Kim Kardashian and Kate Moss are in fact a perfect match, Teen Mom Leah Messer shows stretch marks on tummy after giving birth to three kids & reveals if she'll get a tummy tuck, Duntsch, 50, was convicted of a first-degree felony. Christopher Duntsch Early Life Story, Family Background and Education. Duntsch allegedly performed the operation and flew out to Las Vegas without securing a call physician. Passmore later learned that a ligament in his leg had been severed. Wendy Renee Young met Duntsch at a bar in Memphis. He has left a novels worth of defenses on the web, in PDFs, and in comments below news stories.
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