The chilling new season of Dr. Death will follow the tale of thoracic surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, a man who performed a series of experimental surgeries with deadly consequences for his patients.
“I don’t know if he’s there to harm me or what his true intentions were,” Wendy Young said of the harrowing alleged encounter with Christopher Duntsch.
Jerry Summers believed that his best friend Christopher Duntsch was a talented neurosurgeon who would cure his chronic neck pain. He was tragically mistaken.
“She said she thought that he was going to make millions,” Kimberly Morgan's friend once said her attraction to Christopher Duntsch. “He was smart. He was brilliant. He was a genius."
“You know in the beginning he talked about marriage. Mr. Prince Charming, ‘I’m gonna change your life,’” Wendy Young said of the promising start to her romance with Christopher Duntsch. “I left with him and believed in him and then, you know, he just kind of fell apart.”
“His resume looked brilliant on paper," journalist Matt Goodman said of Christopher Duntsch's ability to continue to gain employment at Texas hospitals despite a deadly track record.
Texas surgeons Dr. Randall Kirby and Dr. Robert Henderson became convinced that fellow physician Christopher Duntsch was so incompetent it was criminal.
Christopher Duntsch, who once claimed to be a mixture of "God, Einstein and the Antichrist," injured or killed 33 of his 38 patients in less than two years, according to prosecutors.