Closure | 6
Dr. Death
Wondery
4.7 • 90K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Michelle Shughart has her work cut out for her, since no doctor has ever been prosecuted for crimes committed while practicing medicine. His patient’s lives would never be the same, but what would what would be the fate of Dr. Duntsch? The people in Dallas struggle to understand what drove him to do such horrible things. And what happens if the system faces another “Dr. Death.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to Dr. Death add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:10.0 | A listener note. This story contains adult content and language. |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, today I'm not well. Still not well. |
| 0:18.0 | Dr. Christopher Dunnch performs surgery on 38 patients. |
| 0:23.0 | 33 suffered serious injury. |
| 0:26.0 | He still has numbness in his hand and in his arm. He drops stuff all the time and that still happens to this day. |
| 0:33.0 | 20 still live with some form of physical pain or paralysis. |
| 0:37.0 | I have done everything I can. I stretch. I stay as active as possible. I try to eat right. |
| 0:45.0 | I try to take vitamins. I do everything I can to minimize the progression of the disease. |
| 0:55.0 | What's going on. |
| 0:57.0 | Only three had no complications. It was just really hard seeing him where he wasn't able to move or to get around or to function as he normally would. |
| 1:10.0 | And to died. |
| 1:14.0 | I tried to speak with many of those who survived. Some of them did not want to be interviewed. |
| 1:20.0 | They said they were working to move on or that they'd said all they have to say about Dunnch. |
| 1:26.0 | Those that did talk to me had one thing in common. Their lives will never be the same. |
| 1:31.0 | It is very difficult for me to walk from one end to my house and up to the bedroom, up to the kitchen. |
| 1:39.0 | And I can stand up maybe two hours on a good day. |
| 1:45.0 | From the time they get up to the time they go to bed, they live with the consequences of putting their trust in Christopher Dunnch. |
| 1:52.0 | But for some of them, the hardest thing to comprehend isn't what happened. |
| 1:57.0 | I know I have the pain. I know that it affects my family, but my thing is how the system that's supposed to be in place allow this to happen, especially for the fate so many people. |
| 2:14.0 | That's been my driving question too, which leads to another. |
| 2:18.0 | If or when other Dr. Desk come along, will there be anything in place to stop them? |
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