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The Surgeon Who Maimed Dozens: Anatomy of a Medical Monster
The Surgeon Who Maimed Dozens: Anatomy of a Medical Monster
A spine surgeon with a twelve‑page CV harmed thirty‑three patients across Dallas between 2011 and 2013, leaving two dead and many paralyzed, incontinent, or in permanent agony - and hospitals repeatedly let him walk into the next operating room. How did institutions with the tools to stop him fail to act, and what single email finally put him away?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events, the victims’ stories, the medical reviews, and the institutional decisions that allowed Christopher Daniel Duntsch to continue operating…
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