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Dr. Death – Christopher Duntsch · Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, it's Nicole and I'm Bet and you are
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  Speaker 1: We had a bit of a.
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  Speaker 2: Blooper blooper intro like huge, definitely not our first time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but we got it on the second second try.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Don't give me no side eyes. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: give you a day you were judging me. I did
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  Speaker 2: not give you a side out, so I thought I
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  Speaker 2: fucked up.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's because you're sitting off to my side a
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  Speaker 1: little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably that's probably honestly what it is, So don't then.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I looked at you in your direction. What's happening?
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  Speaker 1: What's shaken?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm starting us off with a joke. Let's hear
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  Speaker 1: Why don't they take time off? I don't know. Why
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  Speaker 1: don't mummies take time.
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  Speaker 2: Off they're afraid to unwine? Yeah, you actually were pretty close.
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  Speaker 2: Good work.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thank you. That was a good joke. That was
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  Speaker 1: a good joke. I don't like that one.
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  Speaker 2: I really like it.
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  Speaker 1: Well done, well done. What else do we have to
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  Speaker 1: drop in this? Oh? Okay, we got to thank patrons because,
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  Speaker 1: It did. Yeah, that's incredible that we're getting such support
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  Speaker 1: from you guys. So thank you, so.
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  Speaker 2: So much from the bottom of our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: In the bottom of our little wicked hearts.
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  Speaker 2: Yes sorry, it was my mic, just a little echo
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  Speaker 2: be there when I.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all good, it's all good. But all these
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  Speaker 2: Cool that they actually get to nominate stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, I was just going to ask you,
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  Speaker 2: do you know what that is?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that is yet. No, we got
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  Speaker 1: to figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. But Jamie Wherethan was the one
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  Speaker 1: who recommended that, and we're going to go with that.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you Jamie.
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  Speaker 2: Love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, boom, what else have you got anything else to
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  Speaker 1: talk about? I got like a leader of ice coffee.
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  Speaker 2: I know we're both drinking ice coffee. So we just
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  Speaker 2: have this sound going on to It's delicious, which is
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  Speaker 2: super fun. Okay, I don't think so we get to roll.
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  Speaker 2: We can probably just die right in here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's let's just headfirst into the case.
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  Speaker 1: What are we rocking?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness? Are we ready?
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  Speaker 1: Are we?
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready? Are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: Like spaghetti if it's cooked properly. If it's uncooked, then
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  Speaker 1: it's not very ready.
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  Speaker 2: But also spaghetti is like better the second day. What no, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: it like absorbs the flavors. It's an own thing. Lots
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  Speaker 2: of soup is better the second day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, soup, not spaghetti. The sauce might have like more
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  Speaker 1: the sauce maybe, but not the spaghetti. Noodles and not the.
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  Speaker 2: Noodles that's what you were talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about I.
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  Speaker 2: Think of spaghetti, I think of the sauce, but I was.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about spaghetti noodles being uncooked. Oh word, Okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: just let's just get when I was like spaghetti, I
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  Speaker 1: was like talking like a cook spaghetti noodle.
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  Speaker 2: Five minutes in and we're already going downhill. We got
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  Speaker 2: a song. We gotta start here. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to start the story off by sharing
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Martin's story. Kelly, do tell that? I said.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I interrupted you to say do you
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  Speaker 1: tell at the same time, like what.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Kelly was a wife and mother to two beautiful girls.
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  Speaker 2: She was a school librarian who was described as making
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  Speaker 2: every single person she came into contact with feels special
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  Speaker 2: and important, which right away, I'm just like, I love her.
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  Speaker 2: It's so awesome.
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  Speaker 1: People up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I just wish more people did that. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: she loved Christmas. It was one of her favorite times
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  Speaker 2: of year, which I also loved because I also love Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Christmas is dope.
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  Speaker 2: She would, however, have an accident one particular Christmas, retrieving
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  Speaker 2: decorations from the attic her husband handed her a box
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  Speaker 2: and she went down the ladder. As she was going
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  Speaker 2: down the ladder, she missed the step below her, causing
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  Speaker 2: her to fall backwards, which is like, eek, because we
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  Speaker 2: have a ladder, and I think about that.
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  Speaker 1: Often because we have a ladder.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, we like in our tiny home, like our
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  Speaker 2: loft is one of them is a ladder, yes, and
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  Speaker 2: it sketches me out. I'm always like, you can't touch
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  Speaker 2: me when I'm on the ladder because.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's fair scary. Ladders are like a
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  Speaker 1: very high accident prone thing, especially in the workplace and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like. That's a lot of incidents happen in the ladders.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and like ours going up and down with socks
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  Speaker 2: scares me as slippery. It's just like so I was
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  Speaker 2: just like, oh my goodness, this poor lady, like she fell.
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  Speaker 2: So she went through the holiday season exercising her back,
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  Speaker 2: even doing some physical therapy, but her new found back
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  Speaker 2: pain would not seem to go away. Wanting to be
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  Speaker 2: pain free once again and be able to enjoy a
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  Speaker 2: drop of tropical vacation with her husband, Kelly would meet
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  Speaker 2: doctor Christopher Dunch. Does that name ring a bell to you?
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  Speaker 1: It does not, but I know slightly of this case,
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  Speaker 1: so I know who it's probably going to be.
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  Speaker 2: So doctor Dunch was a new hot shot neurosurgeon with
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  Speaker 2: a very impressive resume, a catchy infomercial, and a five
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  Speaker 2: star rating. She would select him to perform the surgery
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  Speaker 2: she needed to get rid of her back. Name when
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  Speaker 2: she needed. What she needed done was described as a
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  Speaker 2: very simple surgery, very routine. The surgery was to repair
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  Speaker 2: a torn piece of disk material compressing the nerves in
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  Speaker 2: her back. The surgery would take place at Baylor Regional
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  Speaker 2: Medical Center. During Kelly's surgery, she would start profusely bleeding.
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  Speaker 2: Her routine surgery turned into a medical emergency. Not good.
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  Speaker 2: The anisethologist who almost Butcher that was expressing concern over
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  Speaker 2: and over again during the procedure that he could not
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  Speaker 2: get her blood pressure up. She was continuing to lose
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  Speaker 2: more and more blood, with her breathing becoming labored, and
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  Speaker 2: she was growing paler by the minute. Just all around,
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  Speaker 2: not a good situation. She was drastically deteriorating the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Dunch did not address the situation, maintaining that Kelly
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  Speaker 2: was okay. She however, was not okay, and was later
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  Speaker 2: pronounced dead.
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  Speaker 1: So bitch dang that awe sucks.
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  Speaker 2: Kelly had bled to death. Doctor Dunch had cut a
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  Speaker 2: blood vessel and tore a hole in a vein, causing
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  Speaker 2: this routine surgery to rather be a medical emergency with
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  Speaker 2: a terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Outcome that was not addressed. You just let it go.
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  Speaker 2: As the medical team went to inform Kelly's family, they
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  Speaker 2: just knew from the looks on their faces that gives
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  Speaker 2: me shifvers. Doctor Dunch would, however, never make eye contact
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  Speaker 2: with them, but rather just looked down at the floor.
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  Speaker 2: This family had lost their mother, and this was not
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  Speaker 2: doctor Dunch's first incident, but rather his first surgery back
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  Speaker 2: after being demoted to performing only minor procedures, when just
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  Speaker 2: a few months earlier he had paralyzed his closest friend,
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  Speaker 2: Jerry Summers, in another botch surgery that left him a quadriplegic.
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  Speaker 2: Holy shit, this, my friends, is the cruel story of
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  Speaker 2: the victims of doctor Christopher Dunch, also known as doctor
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  Speaker 2: d or doctor Death. A person in a position of
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  Speaker 2: power taking advantage of people in moments of complete weakness.
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  Speaker 1: That's one hell of a pseudonym.
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  Speaker 2: Doc Death, Doctor Death. You imagine if that was like
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  Speaker 2: holy fuck? Oh like just cringe. So in this man
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  Speaker 2: of less than two years, doctor Death injured thirty three
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  Speaker 2: out of his thirty eight patients. That's an eighty seven
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  Speaker 2: percent outcome of getting fucked up by this guy. Holy shit,
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  Speaker 2: Like no, thank you? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: We moved from one hospital to another until his medical
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  Speaker 2: license was suspended and finally revoked.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. How many patients did he have to go through
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  Speaker 1: before it was revoked?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll get there. Okay, Okay, we'll get there.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So Christopher Dunch. I was going to refer to
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  Speaker 2: him as doctor D this whole time.
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  Speaker 1: Can we call him doctor Douche?
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  Speaker 2: Do we like doctor D or do we like doctor Death?
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  Speaker 2: Do you like doctor D? Could be like a porn name,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll go back and forth. Okay, so doctor D.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Dunch was born sorry go ahead. Was born in
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  Speaker 2: Montana and spent most of his youth in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: His father was a physical therapist and his mother stayed home.
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  Speaker 2: In high school, he was a football star after graduation. Graduating,
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  Speaker 2: he would initially attend a small college in Mississippi to
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  Speaker 2: play football, later transferring to color Colorado State University. Though
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  Speaker 2: he trained harder than anyone, he lacked talent to the
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  Speaker 2: game and eventually returned home to attend Memphis State University,
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  Speaker 2: switching to a career in medicine. He completed his undergraduate
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  Speaker 2: degree in nineteen ninety five, then continued onto an ambitious
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  Speaker 2: md PhD program. In twenty ten. Doctor d would complete
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  Speaker 2: his mdphd and neurology.
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  Speaker 1: Wholy, I'm grim if we don't Butcher pronunciating.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh all the time. I'm like in my head,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, you got this, you got this, and it's like, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So he completed his neural ner Holy for now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just it's just down neurology. Neurosurgery is actually what I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to say, and in my brain it's like something
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  Speaker 2: totally different. So sorry, neurological, Yeah, maybe I need some more. Okay, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So neural surgery, oh, Man Regency program.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that is a tongue twister and a half.
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  Speaker 1: I say that three times fast. I dare anyone anyway, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So he completed that whatever the ship it was the
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  Speaker 2: University of Tennessee Hell Science Center, and he also completed
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  Speaker 2: a spine Fellowship program at the Seems Murphy Clinic in Memphis.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's that's an education.
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  Speaker 2: So he did get edge imicated right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: After graduating doctor d, focused heavily on the PhD half
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  Speaker 2: of his degree, with his name appearing on several papers
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  Speaker 2: and patents, and he took part in a number of
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  Speaker 2: biotech startups. This would look really good on his already
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  Speaker 2: glowing resume. He would eventually decide to turn to neurosurgery
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  Speaker 2: and it was an as it was an extremely lucrative field,
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  Speaker 2: and he was five hundred thousand dollars in debt. So
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  Speaker 2: I mean, not the most terrible of reasons to choose
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  Speaker 2: a field, because you know, money makes the world turn. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but there probably could have been better reasons for him
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  Speaker 2: to choose to go into neurosurgery.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, generally people choose their occupation for an income.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not going to knock anyone if they'd go
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  Speaker 1: into a field for money.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But I feel like also with like the with
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  Speaker 2: doctors and nurses and stuff like, generally they also have
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  Speaker 2: a desire to want to help people too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's not to say that maybe he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have that desire.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he could have. He could have, but I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, like you say, money makes the world go round.
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  Speaker 2: It does it unfortunately does. So he moved to Dallas
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  Speaker 2: and joined Baylor Regional Medical Center referred to as Baylor
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  Speaker 2: Plano as a minimally minimally invasive spine surgeont with his salary.
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  Speaker 2: His salary, you ready for this? Six hundred ges per
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  Speaker 2: year plus bonuses, wowsers.
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  Speaker 1: Can I have some deal like that?
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  Speaker 2: That's like a lot? Eh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we could buy so much Halloween candy with that.
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  Speaker 1: I've been eyeing up that.
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  Speaker 2: We already buy so much Halloween gets a problem. It's delicious, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So this brings us to doctor D's first patient at
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  Speaker 2: Baylor Plano, which is Kenneth Fannell. After Kenneth's surgery, he
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  Speaker 2: was left with chronic pain. The reason for this being
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  Speaker 2: that good old doctor D operated on the wrong part
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  Speaker 2: of his.
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  Speaker 1: Back ooh, the wrong part of the.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong part of his back. And this he did this often,
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  Speaker 2: like literally, does not diagnose where the pain is properly
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  Speaker 2: on someone's back. The pain he was experienced experiencing was
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  Speaker 2: getting worse, so Kenneth needed a second surgery and he
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  Speaker 2: went back to doctor D. I'm pretty sure I'd be
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  Speaker 2: like fuck you and this one would leave him paralyzed.
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  Speaker 2: After doctor D removed a part of his ephemeral nerve,
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  Speaker 2: it took Kenneth months of rehabilitation to be able to
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  Speaker 2: walk with a cane, still not being able to walk
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  Speaker 2: more than thirty feet or stand more than a few
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  Speaker 2: minutes without having to sit down.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a lawsuit in the fucking half.
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  Speaker 2: Holy shit, Yeah, like he sucked him away up, that's
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  Speaker 2: just the beginning. So on December thirtieth, twenty eleven, Lee
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  Speaker 2: Passmore was referred to doctor D by his pains specialist.
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  Speaker 2: During the surgery, it was observed that doctor D cut
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  Speaker 2: a ligament around Lee's spinal cord that wouldn't normally be
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  Speaker 2: touched during this type of procedure. He also misplaced hardware
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  Speaker 2: in his spine and stripped the screw that kept the
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  Speaker 2: hardware in place, making the device so it could not
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  Speaker 2: be removed.
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  Speaker 1: What the fuck?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Dis you?
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  Speaker 2: Wait? Vascular surgeon Mark Howell, who was assisting doctor D
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  Speaker 2: with the surgery, was so disturbed by his actions that
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  Speaker 2: he later vowed to never go into another operating room
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  Speaker 2: with this man.
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  Speaker 1: Holy oh wow, I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: Speechless and Okay, I find that like so interesting because
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  Speaker 2: in my mind at this point, like this is a
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  Speaker 2: new doctor, Like wouldn't he be getting reviewed or something,
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  Speaker 2: because that's a bold statement coming from another surgeon.
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  Speaker 1: No kidding, And like there's it's not like just one
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  Speaker 1: accident has happened so far. This is we're already on
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  Speaker 1: multiple occasions. Why is nothing happening yet?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Have there at this point I'm sure you might get
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  Speaker 1: into this, but have there even been any lawsuits yet?
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  Speaker 2: No? Not as far as I know.
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  Speaker 1: That might be why because it's like, oh, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a big of a deal and there's nothing really
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  Speaker 1: to go against him. M It's like and it's sad
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  Speaker 1: to say, as it is, it's very much so similar
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  Speaker 1: to like rape victims. If someone is out there raping individuals,
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  Speaker 1: he's not going to go to prison or get caught
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  Speaker 1: or anything unless someone speaks up.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And lots of these people didn't know that he
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  Speaker 2: had like prior incidents either, so they thought there was
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  Speaker 2: just a one off and maybe it just went wrong
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. And then doctor G was also like a
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  Speaker 2: very confident individual, so I think he could like get
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  Speaker 2: out of situations pretty easily.
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  Speaker 1: Y Holy fuck.
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  Speaker 2: So Lee was left with chronic pain and had a
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  Speaker 2: difficult time walking. Not even a month later, in January
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twelve, Barry morgulof I'm pretty sure, is how
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  Speaker 2: you say that, would find himself on doctor D's table,
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  Speaker 2: his procedure being a spinal fusion. He had injured his
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  Speaker 2: back unloading trucks and could no longer walk without pain.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor D vowed to help him. Oh, of course, very
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  Speaker 2: Barry quoting I can fix you was like a magic word. Boom,
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  Speaker 2: that's all I heard. I thought that he was going
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  Speaker 2: to be the man to help me walk again, and
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  Speaker 2: just decide I wanted to do a little side note
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  Speaker 2: if you want to dig a little deeper into this case,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: there's a docu series on Peacock. Have you heard of that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't know what that was at first, but I
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: think it's like a streaming service in the US. And
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: the series is called Doctor Death and it has like
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: some big names in there. Joshua Jackson. Do you know
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: who that is?
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: H Yeah, I'm actually I'm looking at it right now.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, As you were talking, like, I wonder if
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: there's been a movie.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy yet Christian Slater and Alec Baldwin, just
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: to name a few. And I was initially so bummed
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: because I was trying to find this and it didn't
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: seem like it was available in Canada because the Peacock
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: streaming thing is just us. But then the Global TV
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: ap pass it and.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: It's The first episode air date was July fifteenth, twenty twenty.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: One, so it's like, yeah, it's this year. So anyway,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to throw that out there, and that
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: show was based off a podcast series with the same name,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: So some of the quotes and stuff that I have
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: in this is from articles from the Peacock docuseriies just
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: to throw it out there. I know what I'm doing
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: this weekend. I'm gonna watch that. I think it'd be
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: so sweet. Okay, So now, during this procedure, there was
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: yet another fellow doctor assisting in the surgery. His name
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: was Randal Kirby, and he would say doctor D was
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: performing at a first or second year neurosurgical resident level
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: and had no apparent insight into how bad his technique
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: really was. Holy shit, yeah, he Doctor Kirby would later
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: write to the Texas Medical Board that doctor D had
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: problems throughout the simple procedure, nicking the patient's vertebrae artery
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: and having difficulty moving the plate into the proper place. Like, yikes, this.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Is literally something out of a fucking horror movie.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, I mean, did doctor Death not give
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: you all indication enough?
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not okay going into this so far. My expectation was, Okay,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: doctor Death, it was gonna be something similar to I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: can't remember her name, but that.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: That nurse, that Elizabeth Wettlawfer.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I was kind of expecting something like that, where he
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: had this obsession with like killing people on purpose.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: He's just I think he's just shit at his job.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he just thinks he's all this and he's just
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: not even close. He's just a fuck horrible doctor.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is alarming.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's worse than someone who just
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: is purposely doing it or not. I don't know what
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: would be worse.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, At first I was going to say someone
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: purposely doing it, but then I don't know, because I.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Mean, morally, clearly, someone purposely injuring someone is worse clearly,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: But on a level of him talking to people and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: getting their hopes of I can fix you. Yeah, and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: then not even having any sort of skills to even
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: come close to backing that up.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Well, because at some point you got to know if
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: you're bad at something too.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Really, so he's giving all this hope to people
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and then just crushingly in.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Their dreams, making them more so when they came in.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So that that is horrible, Like, oh my god.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So unfortunately, here I go. Perry would end up
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: with more pain than he began with and was left
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: with no feeling in his left leg. He said he
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: woke up and it felt like he'd been hit by
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: a truck. He'd never experienced pain of this type. Barry
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: was also left with bone fragments from his vertebrate lodged
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: into the nerves of his back and pain now rules
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: his life.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Holy shit.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: At a follow up appointment Barry had with doctor D Oops,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: he was showing clear signs. Doctor d was showing clear
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: signs of being like high or in him what is
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: that word in himbriand ineborated, yeah, cause and this caused
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Barry to walk out, so like he was either like
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: drunk or high or something. Wow, Like that's fucked that
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: that right there actually scares me more. I don't know.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine going and seeing a specialist and they're
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: like not taking your appointments serious and high on drugs
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: or like drunk, Like, oh my gosh, I would just freak.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: So one very interesting tidbit is that a typical neurosurgery
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: resident completes about a thousand operations during their training, which
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: seems very fair to me because you're operating on some
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: pretty sens to varies, right like brain, spinal cord kind
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: of thing. Yep, doctor D had done fewer than any guesses.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Uh, fewer than fifty.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, you went that low. You're supposed to have
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: a one thousand, I know.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And I was just like, okay, like is this with
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: his with his skill level, I'm expecting he like.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Just yeah, so he did fewer than one hundred.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, well I'm not that far off.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I know, but I actually didn't think you'd go that low.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: So the fact, because I was.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Like shocked, Well he's pretty shit.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So okay, so how is this possible, you may ask? Well,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: doctor D suffered from substance abuse, and it was brought
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: forward to the University of Tennessee following an anonymous complaint
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: that came in. He was ordered by the university to
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: take a drug test, but somehow was able to get
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: out of it. He was then sent to a program
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: for impaired physicians, but still allowed to complete his surgical training.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: It's unclear how thorough his training exactly was. Holy fuck,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: it kind of seems like he slipped through the cracks lately.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: But that's just like that is just some oh I mean,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: no doctors, I guess you'd slip through the cracks. But
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: that's like one specialty that I'm like, oh my gosh,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: like ugh, it's up there with like kneecaps and eyeballs.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: To me, what do you mean that's up there with
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: having to like research about spinal cords. Like it's cringey, cringey.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I can't do it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: That's not cringey. That's just like gross.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Well, there's certain body parts that I'm just like a boat. Okay.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: So doctor D's next victim, who I mentioned earlier when
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: sharing Kelly's story, would beat Jerry Summers. Jerry was actually
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: one of doctor D's closest friends, which I find incredibly
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: interesting because if you knew you were a shitty at
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: something like a shitty surgeon. Would you actually offer to
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: help your friend like they were close friends or does
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: that just show how overconfident and how much of a
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: sociopath he really was?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: That one, definitely that one.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Jerry had chronic neck pain from a car accident, so
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: had asked his friend for help. Boy was that the
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: wrong decision because when he woke up, Jerry would find
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: himself a quadriplegic. Doctors who later reviewed the case determined
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: that doctor D had damaged Jerry's vertebrate artery during the surgery,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: which caused significant bleeding. What doctor D did to stop
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the bleeding was packed the space with so much gelfoam
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: that it constricted Jerry's spine. And basically from what I
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: could find, jelphonem was like a super absorbent compressed sponge
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: to help kind of clot blood and you can leave
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: some of it in the body, but not an excessive
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: amount like he had. And this part is like, Hugh,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: really gross. He had also removed so much of Jerry's
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: bones bone that his head was no longer secure to
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: his body. What what like, it's just it's just it's
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: too much.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Holy shit.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, reading that, I was almost like, this has to
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: be like a joke, like this is just too too far. Wow,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: too far, Jerry saying as soon as he had woke up,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I couldn't move my arms or my legs. It felt
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: like a big pile of bricks is on your body
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: and your head is sticking out. I knew something was wrong.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: He was an intense pain, and I imagine, like Garrett
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: is hell yeah, and he was the only thing he
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: had left his voice to call for help. He lived
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: to share his story, but it's been reported that Jerry
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: had passed away earlier this year due to an infection
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: connected to his status of being a quadriplegic.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Wow, oh my god.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: That is horrible and so like at the time that
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: they I don't know caught doctor D. I guess that
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: that death wasn't even like within his uns. Yeah, but
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: so that's an incident that later happened, right.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: So after this incident, doctor D was instructed to perform
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: only minor procedures. I don't even know exactly what that means.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: But in my opinion, at what point can he just
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: have his license taken away? Please? Yes, please, But I'm
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: sure the process to remove a doctor from doctor status
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: would be lengthy, take a whack of time, and cost
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: a lot of money, all which medical facilities may not have.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Kelly Martin, who I shared her story at the very beginning,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: was his next surgical patient back from his little hiatus there,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I guess, and in order to perform her surgery, he
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: had to pass a psycholog legit evaluation, which he obviously did.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: He get passed, though, well, he wasn't like crazy, Are you.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Sure about that? He sounds pretty fucking nuts to me.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: And now, after Kelly's incident, surely you'd think this has
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to be the end, but it's not. The hospital he
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: was working at at the time, Baylor Plano, Well, they
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: conducted an investigation on doctor d and found that he
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: would need to be let go as he failed to
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: meet their standards of care, obviously, but instead of firing him,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: it's reported that he voluntarily resigned, and because of it
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: being a voluntary resis, the hospital was not required to
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: report doctor Dee's actions to the National Practitioner Data Bank
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: or the Texas Medical Board, therefore having none of his
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: malepractices tracked.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Wow, just what I mean? Yeah, okay, sure, it's easier. Oh okay,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: he resigns it's easy on us. But now like the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: shit storm you just cause for other people, Yep, Holy
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: fucked is that? Oh wow?
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I feel like they don't have to report it, but
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: can they still report it?
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: But then there was something about there that they didn't
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: want to be like sued because he could potentially then
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: come back and like sue them, and then if it
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: was wrongful like reporting, then I don't know the hospital
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: like that. They don't want lawsuits, right. I think they
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: probably already don't have a lot of money or something.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know, But still there has to just be
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: something like you're conscious you just have to report it,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: do you not?
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's you're dealing with people's lives, as simple
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: as that. And it's not even like you're dealing with
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: people's lives literally right now. You're dealing with people's lives
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: in the futures that are going to be in the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: hands of this fucking crazy Oh my god, Like this
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: case is fun.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: It's an ethics thing really at some point. Yeah, So
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: he rather just continued his career elsewhere in the state.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: He moving on quite quickly actually, to the Dallas Medical Center,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: where he was allowed to begin operating immediately, Holy grant you.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: He was only granted temporary privileges while his references were
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: checked out, but in that time he was still able
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: to do quite some damage. Floella Brown would be his
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: next victim. Floella was a banker who was about to
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: retire and was hoping to ease her worsening back pain
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: going into retirement. It initially seemed like her PERCEI was
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: going well, but again she started having excessive bleeding, to
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: the point where doctor D was complaining he couldn't see
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: there was so much blood.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Holy shit, I oh, are you okay?
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Like you actually seem so agitated.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I'm extremely agitated on this one. Like I can't pick
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: my job off the fucking floor.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: You seem so uncomfortable. Is there another reason you're uncomfortable?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: No, Like, I'm physically comfortable in my little fucking bean
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: bag up in this loft, But this case is just
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: so fucked because.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: You're like agitation levels are almost like causing me to
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: be agitated, because I'm like, is everything okay? But you're
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: so distraught.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I just don't understand how he can just keep doing this. Yeah,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: like physically from a his standpoint of like I am
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: hurting so many people. He should at one point just
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: be like, holy fuck, I'm a shit doctor. I should
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: probably either go back to school because I know I
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: slipped through the cracks mm hmm and learn this proper
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: or b I should step down. And the other side
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: of it being that like when is someone going to
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: be like, dude, you are killing people and fucking up
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: people's lives so much. Stop But nothing is happening.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I know because at least with like Elizabeth Wetlawer, she
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: never got caught her. She was I think overdosing people
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: with insulin is remembering correctly, and so it would just
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: it totally slipped through the cracks and no one else
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: knew that she was doing terrible job. But in these situations,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: he is a room full when he's doing surgeries, and
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: like everyone can see how terrible of a job he's doing.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: It's witness after witness after witness, and no one's doing anything,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: no one's saying anything.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Yep, and it's just.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: People's lives and it's just it fucking hurts. Holy shit.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this is really I've We've done some fucked
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: up cases that have gotten to me, and this is
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: probably one of the ones. That have gotten to me
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the most. This is up there with Junco for tour
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: with for.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Me like it. Holy moly, Ben Wow, Okay, so back
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: to it.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Sorry.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Rather than to abort the surgery, he continued on, they
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: closed Full Floella up and had her move to recovery,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: where she later was visited with family, reporting that she
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: had felt okay, but by the next morning she had
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: taken a turn for the worse. Her body had started
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: convulsing and she lost consciousness. Doctor D who they were
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: trying to reach, could not be reached four hours. And
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: that thing pisses me off because it's like, if you're
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: doing surgeries and you have people in recovery. I mean,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: I know, like you don't want to be working twenty
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: for seven blah, but that's the job that you signed
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: up for, yeah, and you need to be available if
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: something goes so there.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: If I may go off slightly, here as an example
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: of a good doctor who is available for you. Of
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: all doctors' names, my dentist's name is doctor Payne p
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: A y n. True story his legitimate name. I got
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: my wisdom teeth pulled when I was.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Younger, and I was just going to say.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Thirteenth, nonetheless by doctor Paine. He's a really good dentist,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: really good guy, takes really good care and very careful,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: awesome dentist. When I got my wisdom teeth pulled, he
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: was off on vacation or a wedding or something. He
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: was out of the province, across the fucking country. He
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: called me while he was not on the job to
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: see how my recovery was doing.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: And not that that getting wisdom deed isn't a big deal,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: but compared to these kind of surgeries, it's not really
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: a big deal. So that's impressive.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Like the dentist stood aside from I can't remember if
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I think it was a wedding. He stood aside from
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the wedding, called my mom to ask how my recovery
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: was going.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Which is amazing.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: That's what a good surgery a surgeon should be doing.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Totally, totally. So he finally rolled into the hospital late
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: late for an elective surgery that he had and instead
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: of canceling that elective surgery to attend to Floella, who
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: was not doing well, he proceeded with his new surgery. Unfortunately,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Floella would later die. She was moved to another hospital
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: when doctor D was finally willing to transfer her as
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: a patient, but it was ultimately too late. She had
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: been without auction for too long that her brain was dead,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: and she'd ultimately died from a stroke and massive blood loss.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: A neurosurgeon was hired to review the case and found
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: that doctor D had both pierced and blocked Floella's vertibal
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: vertebra sorry artery with a misplaced screw. It was also
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: found that he was operating on the entirely wrong area
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: and misdiagnosed the source of pain.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: This is horrific.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, The next one Mary efferred, I think would be
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: last name, would be his next victim, and she was one.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: She was the one that doctor D was operating while
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Floel was basically dying. Right. She was a seventy one
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: year old woman. But doctor D was distracted during her
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: surgery report saying he was preoccupied with the thoughts of Floella,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: which is interesting since he decided to go ahead with
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Mary's surgery.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: While doing so, he struggled to put the necessary hardware
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: in Mary, incorrectly placing it in muscle rather than bone,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: causing her to later wake up in agonizing pain and
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: unable to move her legs. Another what the fuck? I
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: can't even look I can't even look at you. How
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: can your face?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: How can you mistake muscle for bone?
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but it does get worse. So another surgeon,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Robert had and was called in to try and repair
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: the damage. He said, immediately upon opening the patient's prior
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: score scar, I could see a screw penetrating that drool sack.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I don't really know what it is from the left
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: side of the body, but it was just wobbling there.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: So a screw was wobbling there. It was like somebody
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: just threw some tanker toys in there, or an erector
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: set in there. I had absolute zero comprehension of how
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: this surgeon could think that he had done this procedure correctly.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So unfortunately, there are other hospitals and other victims.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go through all of them since
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: this is going to just be a one more Herder episode,
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: but there's a few more cases I wanted to briefly note.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: So this is some bullet points of a bunch of shit,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: So just prepare yourself.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Oh God, I'm gonna have to breathe deep for this, okay,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: give you like a countdown.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Here, three, two.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: One, Okay, I'm good, I'm buckldac. Let's do this, okay.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: So he cut part of a patience spinal cord, leaving
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: him unable to move anything on the right side of
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: his body, saying to him, I don't know why you're
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: like this. Everything went perfectly in there.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: What what.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: He calls Marshall muse an avid runner to spiral into addiction,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: losing his job and splitting from his wife because he
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: was in so much pain after his operation, and instead
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: of correcting whatever for an air he made, he instead
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: prescribed him so much pain mediccation that when trying to
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: get it filled for a second time at the pharmacy,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: the pharmacist refused to fill it because it was going
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: to be harmful to him. So he just prescribed him
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: so much pain meds that it pretty much caused an addiction. Wow,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: and so this guy had ruined his freaking life. He
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: cut another patient's vocal courts during her procedure, leaving her
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: barely able to speak. He left Philip Mayfield unable to walk.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: He was taken to a different hospital, receiving a new doctor,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: but told the damage done by doctor D was irreversible.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: He this is super sweet. Didn't accept this outcome and
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: told them, yes, I will walk again. I have a
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: life that I have to live. I have three boys
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I need to raise, and he was right. He eventually
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: did regain his ability to walk after intense rehab, which
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: I just love because that's just like an outcome of
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: positive thinking and mind over matter.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Hey, is that our badass of the day rate there?
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I think it probably is because he basically got a
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: really shitty dia diagnosis and he still walks with a
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: cane and lives with chronic pain, but he can walk
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: when they basically said, you know, you wouldn't be able to.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: That's something like that. That's inspiring as fuck. Just got to
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: say good on that guy.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I know, I do think a lot of times things
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: can be mind or matter too, right, But like it's
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: hard to get to that mindset too where you're like,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: I can't overcome this when people are telling you you can't. Like, yeah,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: So that's an incredible person. This is really unfortunate though,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: but I'm going to say it. He unfortunately did die
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: earlier this year from COVID.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: He years later had continued to receive treatments to relieve
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: the pain that doctor D caused, and this caused him
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: to be vulnerable to the to the virus.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: So technically doctor D still got to in the end.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: There's another one.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, ah fuck.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: So doctor D's final surgery would be on Jeff Glidewell.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: And this day started with doctor D being three hours
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: late for his surgery, holy shit, arriving to the hospital
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: by cab. So it's not like he was just in
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: another surgery or something. Jeff was having a bad feeling
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: about going ahead with the surgery, but his wife had
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: reassured him and wanted him to go ahead with it.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: That's got feeling, right, those gut feelings. Yeah. But then honestly,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: if you're at the hospital like and prepped and stuff, like,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: to back out of that would be a ballsy decision.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Most people wouldn't do that. So but once Jeff would
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: wake up and find himself in more pain than before
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: the surgery, also super wild, doctor D. This is where
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: it gets interested, Like where I said more wild. Doctor
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: D told Jeff's wife that they had to abort the
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: surgery because he discovered a tumor that he felt could
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: be cancer. That tumor like thing just ended up being
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: a muscle. Like he really just does. He has no
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: idea what he's doing. Like I think I almost feel
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: like I could research and probably do a surgery better
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: in a sense.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Have you ever watched The Simpsons?
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure, y, yeah, I don't know.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Doctor Nick is just like the world's shittiest fucking doctor.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: This dude reminds me of doctor Nick.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: On the six show. Maybe that inspired it.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe because like on The Simpsons, doctor Nick is like
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: doing box back alley surgeries all the time, and even
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: one point he's like the hip bones connected to the
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: leg bone, leg bones connected to my wristwatch. Uh oh,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: like that sort of stuff. And that's what this reminded
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: me of, Like this, Oh, we had to back out
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: because there's a tumor that's a.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Muscle muscle like, oh my god. So even though he
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: boarded the surgery, he still ended up leaving Jeff with
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: a hole in his esophagus. He took out a nerve,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: cut an argery, and left a sponge inside of his body.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Again, doctor Nick, it might as well be a fucking wristwatch, like.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Oh my, Like, oh, this guy, Doctor Randall Kirby was
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Russian days later to repair doctor D's damage. Kirby described
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: what he did to Jeff as attempted murder and because
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: this wasn't the first time he felt they had a
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: serial killer on the loose in their medical community. Jeff
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: would spend months in the hospital recuperating from the surgery
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: that need that nearly killed him. Wow, this would have
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: doctor D's medical license finally suspended.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Good, wait suspended, and later.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: You just can't wake and in December of twenty thirteen
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: it would be permanently revoked. Good good, yep, yep, yep.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Too late, though, that was thirty eight.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Too many people like the thirty eight. Well, so remember
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: at the very beginning he had thirty eight victims and
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: thirty three of them got fucked up, right, so like
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: he should have been not operating on a freaking single person.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Both doctors Randall Kirby and Robert Henderson, who had mentioned
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: at times above doctors who were called in to fix
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: doctor D's mistakes, were crucial in bringing doctor d down.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Good And apparently it's very rare for doctors to turn
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: on each other in this way. It's not something that
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: happens often.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if someone's doing these botch jobs so
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: much and so prolifically.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Good thing they're coming in m m, well no, it
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: just shows those ones are in it for the right reasons. Right. So,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: after this, life for doctor D would fall, would fall apart.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Sorry I just said would fall, but like that doesn't
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: make sense, but it basically would fall apart, and rightfully so,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: he started drinking too much, shoplifting hundreds of dollars worth
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: of items. This got him arrested. He declared bankruptcy after
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: listing debts of over one million dollars WHOA got a
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: dui among other things. So, like life really took turn
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: for him. In the meantime, prosecutors were working with both
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: doctor Kirby and doctor Henderson to find a way to
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: formally charge doctor D, which would be a challenge. They
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: needed to prove that doctor D's actions were wilful and
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: intentional as defined by the Texas law.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Well, that is kind of the fine line we're walking
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: on this case, though, because maybe he really just thinks
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: he's doing a good job, and clearly he's not. He
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing it, But maybe he just really thinks
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: that he's just helping these people and he's not aware
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: that he's just that much of an idiot.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. So like its challenge, right, Yeah.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: And I hate to say this, but almost thank goodness
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: for doctor D's downward spiral, because this was a process
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: for them to figure out, and it was feared he
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: could move elsewhere and still theoretically get a medical license apparently,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: So it's a good thing that he was doing this
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: downward spiral, not just like trying to figure out how
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: he could go work somewhere else. After interviewing dozens of
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: doctor D's patients and their survivors, it became very clear
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: that his actions were indeed criminal, and imprisonment would be
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: the only option to prevent him from practicing medicine again.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: In July twenty fifteen, approximately a year and a half
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: after his license was revoked, Doctor D would finally get
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: arrested and charged with six felamy counts of aggravated assault
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: with a deadly weapon, five counts of aggravated assault causing
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: serious bodily injury, and one account of injury to an
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: elderly person that was Mary. She was the seventy one
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: year old. The last charge of injury to an elderly
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: person was put on a high priority as it was
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: provided as it would provide the widest sentencing range. Doctor
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: D could face up to life in prison if convicted
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: of this. They also believed that charge would be easily
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: to more easily to prove in court. However, the mangle
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: of the trial was to achieve a sentence long enough
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: to ensure doctor D would never be able to practice
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: medicine again, held in the Dallas Dallas Country Jail for
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: almost two years. Finally, in twenty seventeen, doctor D was
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: tried for the charge of injury to an elderly person. First,
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: many of doctor D's patients were called to stand at
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: the trial, and according to doctor D's lawyers, this isn't
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: you will need to listen to this.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: I'm listening.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Doctor D had not realized how poorly he had performed
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: as a surgeon until he heard the prosecution experts tell
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: the jury about his many blunders on the operating table.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: That's the scariest part of all this, Like bizarre, he
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: had no actual idea how bad it was.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: I guess he had no idea how terrible.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: He was at the Yeah, Like did he think that
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: that was most doctors like report that they eighty seven
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: percent of their patients were fucked.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Well, he probably just like did the job, and like, oh,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: it is what it is. It's not me, it's your recovery.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: It's not me, it's it's you dealing with pain. That's normal. Like,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: think of it this way. How often, how many of
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: us go to work and we just have like that
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: one coworker or someone we've run across who just does
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: such a bad job and they just don't even notice,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: They don't even care, they don't even seem to realize
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: how ridiculous they're fucking up all the time.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: And now imagine that person's a doctor.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, imagine that person getting into the shoes of a
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: doctor's position. That's all it is. There's many people out
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: there that do this sort of thing all the time. Yeah,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: it's just on a ridiculous scale with people's lives as.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: A scale that literally affects people's lives, terrifying part. Yeah,
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Doctor D's defense was poor training and lack of oversight
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: by the hospitals. After thirteen days of trial, the jury
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: needed only four hours to convict doctor D for the
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: charge of injury to an elderly person. On February twentieth,
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, he was sentenced to life in prison. He
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: was not He will not be eligible for parole until
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: twenty forty five, when he will be seventy four years old. Wow,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: loot WoT.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: I mean I feel for him though too, because like
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I said, he had well, like you said, he had
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: no idea, He had no intention of hurting these people.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Clearly he was Clearly he shouldn't have been in this position,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: but he was. Oh this is a tough one. Yeah,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: because it's he didn't mean to. He was still doing it,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: but he wasn't meaning to. So yeah, he deserves reprimmendation. Yeah,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: he should not be a doctor. Yeah, like all this
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: is I agree, Yes, something should happen, But this whole time,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: he just thought he was saving people's lives.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Also, all four hospitals that employed doctor Y to no surprise,
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: had ongoing civil cases against them. Okay, So one thing
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: that too that I ended up missing. I had it
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: in my report and then now it's not there, and
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: I'm at the end and I'm like, where the hell
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: is that statement? Because this could affect affect your opinion. Okay,
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: So in the courts they had one piece of I
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: guess you'd call it evidence, And what it was is
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: it was an email that he had written to his
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: former assistant who was his ex girlfriend, and like it's bad.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: It says, unfortunately, you cannot understand that I am building
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: an empire and I am so far outside the box
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: that the earth is small and the sun is bright.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: I am ready to leave the love and kindness and
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: goodness and patience that I mix with everything else that
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: I am and become a cold blooded killer.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: What.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this this ex girlfriend had submitted this, and
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: that's what it said. So in my he was I
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: don't think he was doing his job right, and it
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: almost did come across like he didn't realize he was
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: doing it right. But then if you read that, it's
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: almost like he did know and didn't give a shit.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Unless because I mean, there's no context with that now
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: there isn't and I'm going to play devil's advocate here.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Maybe he's just because what if this email is around
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: the time of when there's like he's getting kicked out
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: of hospitals and some doctors are.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: He could be frustrated.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: He could be frustrated, and he could not even be
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: talking about his patients. He could just be like, Oh,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I just want to go like murder someone. I want
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: to go punch just guy in the face, Like people
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: say that stuff out of anger quite frequently. I want
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: to fucking shoot that dude. Yeah, that could be something.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Like that, and it was to a loved one, right.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it could maybe not have anything to do
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: with his patients. If it does have anything to do
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: with his patients, then yeah, fuck everything I said. This
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: guy's every fucking intention. He's a fucking horrible person, Like
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: fuck him, blah blah blah. But we don't know. That's
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: the only problem.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: And the other thing too that I hadn't put in there,
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: but it had said when he was growing up and
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: he was playing all the on those football teams and stuff, right,
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: and his teammates would say like that he like it
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: didn't really football didn't necessarily come naturally to him, but
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: that he put like so much effort into their into it,
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: and there would be drills that he would just like
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat until he would
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: get it. But he still woldn't even almost get it
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: as as much as the other players. And so I
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: think like he almost seemed like he has this drastic
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: need to like do well at everything, but then he
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: can't accept when he doesn't do it.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Well, Yeah, that's very possible.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: If that makes sense.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: It makes sense.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: So I don't know, it's it's just super shitty because
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of people that are probably regretting their
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: decisions of getting help when they actually did need those
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: that help. And I hate, like, I just having to
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: think that those they lost lives and now they're like
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: paralyzed or something like that, and they were literally just
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: trying to get help.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this dude fucked up a lot of lives. Yeah,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: and you fucked up my life by introducing me to
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: this episode, because holy fuck.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't seem like you're going to be the same.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: You're never going to be able to get surgery or anything. Ain't. Yeah,
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: probably not going to trust the soul.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Probably not Well. It was one hell of an episode, babe.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: Good job, good research, and fuck that dude.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So until then, make.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Sure you guys check out our Instagram, our Facebook, our
• 54:02
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• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Until then, stay wicked.