{"id":299060,"date":"2021-07-14T22:30:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/get-to-know-the-real-life-tragedy-behind-dr-death\/"},"modified":"2021-07-14T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:30:11","slug":"get-to-know-the-real-life-tragedy-behind-dr-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/get-to-know-the-real-life-tragedy-behind-dr-death\/","title":{"rendered":"#Get to Know the Real-Life Tragedy Behind ‘Dr. Death’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Get to Know the Real-Life Tragedy Behind ‘Dr. Death’<\/strong>”
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One hour is all it took for a jury in Dallas to decide in 2017 that Christopher Duntsch deserved life in prison for dozens of botched surgeries.<\/p>\n

The former North Texas neurosurgeon\u2014and subject of the Peacock drama Dr. Death<\/em>\u2014received a life sentence for causing serious bodily injury to an elderly person in the case of Mary Efurd. But Duntsch botched the spinal surgeries of 32 patients at various hospitals, leaving two paralyzed and two others dead, according to KTVT-TV<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Duntsch\u2019s story was the basis of the shocking 2018 Wondery podcast Dr. Death<\/em><\/a> (hosted by former Dallas Morning News<\/a><\/em> journalist Laura Beil), which spawned a new TV drama. Also titled Dr. Death<\/em>, the series<\/a> premieres July 15 with Joshua Jackson in the lead as Duntsch. Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater costar as, respectively, spine surgeon Robert Henderson and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby\u2014both doctors who saw Duntsch\u2019s work firsthand.<\/p>\n

During his trial, Duntsch\u2019s defense attorneys argued that he was an inexperienced surgeon, as KTVT-TV<\/em> reported<\/a> at the time of his conviction. But prosecutors accused the defendant of \u201cintentionally, knowingly, and recklessly\u201d harming his patients, saying that he had emailed his girlfriend in 2011 about becoming \u201ca cold-blooded killer.\u201d<\/p>\n