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The Spine Surgeon Who Sewed a Sponge into His Patient's Throat
The Spine Surgeon Who Sewed a Sponge into His Patient's Throat
The picture that emerges is chilling: a routine cervical fusion in 2012 left Jeff Glidewell septic with a surgical sponge sewn into his throat and over fifty corrective surgeries ahead. How did a neurosurgeon with a twelve‑page CV and fewer than one hundred operations devastate so many lives before anyone stopped him?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that unfolded at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Regional and the background that followed Christopher Duntsch to Dallas, from credential claims to catastrophic…
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