Anatomy of a Tragedy Dr. Christopher Duntsch’s patients ended up maimed and dead, but the real tragedy is that the Texas Medical Board couldn’t stop him. But many of Duntsch’s patients were disabled when they came to him, or older, or had lower incomes. “If Dr. Duntsch was unable to get privileges at other hospitals, theoretically Dr. Duntsch could have sued Baylor and said: ‘Look, I could be making $2 million a year here. (An attorney for the University of Tennessee said Boop would not respond to questions for this story. We trust the system. He lasted less than a week before another patient - Floella Brown - died on his watch when he slit a vertebral artery, which triggered a stroke.The doctors he worked with were aghast when they observed him, and on one occasion, another surgeon had to physically step between him and a patient.Duntsch had his hands in a pool of blood above the patient's groin, and claimed he was working by feel, not by sight, in removing a ligament which stabilises the spine.His licence was revoked by the Texas Medical Board in 2013, which found that he had violated standards of care for his patients.Then, in 2015, he was indicted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, but it wasn't until 2017 when he was convicted of a first-degree felony for maiming Mary Efurd.Disabled victim Mary said after the trial: "When they finally got his licence suspended I cried for two days. “That’s not fair, and in the long run, it can come back to be incorrect. "Ultimately Duntsch was charged in connection with four botched surgeries, but he is accused of injuring more than 30 patients in a short period of time.Several of his former patients testified against him.The charges of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury came in connection with the September 2012 surgery of Jeff Cheney, the May 2013 surgery of Jennifer Rich, and Jeff Glidewell's June 2013 surgery, according to police records.Doctors who watched Duntsch perform surgery or went in behind him to repair his mistakes reported grabbing instruments away from him and filing complaints about him to little avail.After the surgeries, Duntsch would sometimes declare that they went well, despite evidence to the contrary.Allegations include that Duntsch misplaced surgical hardware in a patient's spine, punctured another patient's throat leading to a life-threatening infection and irreparably damaged nerves.The charge that sent Duntsch to prison centered on only one case: the permanent damage he did to Mary Efurd.Efurd was 74 when the surgeon operated on her in July 2012 and she lost a half-gallon of blood and the full use of her legs.
“Christopher Duntsch, Texas Medical Board license number N8183, is an impaired physician, a sociopath, and must be stopped from practicing medicine.” Robin Glidewell also sent a letter, describing what happened to her husband.By then, Brett Shipp, a reporter from Dallas’ ABC affiliate, had gotten tips about the board’s slow-moving investigation of Duntsch from a friend of one of Duntsch’s patients and a plaintiff’s attorney. One of the partners, Dr. Michael Rimlawi, “was notified by the administration that the patient wasn’t getting rounded on, and Dr. Rimlawi then dismissed Dr. Duntsch after that,” Kirby said. Lopez suspects the hospital in some way asked Clear Channel to remove it.Stay up-to-date with the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.Stand with us in our mission to discover and uncover the story of North TexasCopyright © 2020 The Dallas Morning News. And waited.
She died within hours of the surgery.
“And so I made a statement that was not something that was necessarily true. “Let me be blunt,” it said. )Passmore did not respond to requests for comment for this story.
Robert Oshel, a patient safety advocate and former associate director of the databank, says that hospitals are required to check all applicants for clinical privileges and once every two years for everyone who has clinical privileges.Many hospitals, however, hesitate to submit reports to the databank, worrying that doing so may hurt doctors’ job prospects or even prompt lawsuits.“What happens sometimes is that doctors are allowed to resign in lieu of discipline so that the hospital can protect its perceived legal liability from the doctor,” said Van Wey, the Dallas trial lawyer.
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