Yet Arafiles didnt surrender his license until November 2011, after he had been convicted of a felony. Jurors convicted Duntsch Tuesday of injury to an elderly person in the botched July 2012 surgery that put Mary Efurd in a wheelchair. They shouldnt ever happen in someones entire career. Jodi Smith. But as investigators took a look back at Christopher's history and consulted with those who knew him, what they discovered was quite disturbing. Its not clear how much Dallas Medical Center officials knew about Duntschs past or how much Baylor told them. It was mostly designed to monitor doctors licenses and make sure the states medical practitioners are keeping up with professional standards. If you were a patient in the Dallas area around this time looking for a spine surgeon, there would have been nothing to suggest that Duntsch was a risky choice. The series is set to premiere on July 12 and will feature a star-studded cast. Duntsch briefly enrolled at CSU in the fall of 1991 when he was 20 years old. Another woman named Megan Kane claimed he ate a paper blotter of LSD and took prescription painkillers in the early 2000s on his birthday. Though a hospital peer review took this doctors privileges in 2006, he continued to practice for three more years until he retired, according to federal records. The surgery had gone so badly, Kirby later wrote to the Medical Board, that the rest of the OR team had to physically restrain Duntsch from continuing. At his home and office, my calls rang and rang before going to voicemail boxes that were full. When Summers woke up he couldnt move his arms or legs. After losing his license, Duntsch filed for bankruptcy and returned to Colorado, where his parents live. In the second, while doing a cervical fusion on a woman named Floella Brown, Duntsch removed a bone from an area that was not required by any clinical or anatomical standards, resulting in injury to the vertebral artery, according to Texas Medical Board records. He felt, Kirby wrote to the Texas Medical Board a year later, that most of the spine surgery being done in Dallas was malpractice, and he was going to have to clean things up.. Their romance moved. But the Medical Board wasnt designed to be an aggressive enforcer. Ill do some crying. Get our latest in-depth reporting straight to your inbox. He seemed to have a hard time moving organs and blood vessels out of the way, according to Kirby. So the board members tend to act conservatively. The True Story Behind Peacock's 'Dr. Death' | Time [2] The division consists of two tiers within it: Premier Division A and Premier Division B. What is Christopher Duntsch AKA Dr Death's ex Kimberly - The Sun When he moved to Dallas in late 2010, Duntsch was 41 years old, fresh out of a residency program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Centers Department of Neurosurgery in Memphis. Dr. Robert Henderson, a Dallas-based orthopedic surgeon who worked to alert authorities about Duntsch, had his own take. The true story of Christopher Duntsch is the subject of the haunting Peacock drama. Its hard to find good conversation with a random person, Young told the magazine. 'Dr. Death': Who Is Jerry Summers and What Happened to Him? - Newsweek Victim statements reveal more gruesome details of botched surgeries - WFAA In June 2010, following the media circus around the prosecution of the Kermit nurses, they filed a complaint against him. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The board, when it finally handed down an order in 2011, faulted him for both deaths. Promising Beginnings Christopher Daniel Duntsch was born in Montana on April 3, 1971, and raised alongside his three siblings in an affluent suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. Wendy Young believed she had finally met her Prince Charming after crossing paths with Christopher Duntsch. 2 Killer doctor Christopher Duntsch Credit: Social Media - Refer to Source Where is Christopher Duntsch AKA Dr. Death now? "Ninety-nine percent of everything that has been said about me is completely false.". Friends since they played football together in high school, Summers helped Duntsch stay organized while he worked in the lab during his residency. Dr. Death is the new true-crime series on Peacock starring The Affair's Joshua Jackson as the infamous surgeon Dr. Christopher Duntsch. This will not bring my mother back, but it is some sense of justice for the all the families, for all of the victims.. At first, Henderson thought Duntsch might be an impostor. The operation was a spinal fusion in which two vertebrae are joined; surgeons use a metal plate to help hold the vertebrae together. He works out, he reads, he studies the Bible. August 28, 2013, 2:01 . The nuance of his private life is obscured by allusions to a failed football career and a demeaning father that somehow are. The two-week trial especially focused on Mary Efurd's testimony. He was brilliant. Doctor convicted of botched surgery gets life sentence - USA Today Dr. Randall Kirby was another surgeon at Baylor Plano. On the tape, Henderson demands to know why Duntsch is still practicing. What Happened To Jerry Summers, 'Dr. Death' Christopher Duntsch's