Imagine you're struggling with back pain for months. No one can tell you what's wrong. Then you find a doctor. And the words that he said that I wanted to hear was,

I can fix you.

And, you know, those are magic words. I was in pain and somebody in neurosurge and

I could fix you. You trust he'll take care of your problem.

Nothing but good reports and a list of accolades that were two pages long.

When you talk to him, he's engaging, he seems very intelligent, he's witty, he's charming.

He'd always talk about, I'm going to be a doctor.

But he has this dark side that he likes to keep separate and hidden from everybody else.

This is a story about 33 patients

who put their trust in a prominent surgeon in Dallas.

State your full name for the record. Christopher Daniel Dunche.

And wish they hadn't.

This friend called me and said,

I believe that your doctor is on the news

that he has been killing patients.

And it's a story about a system

that failed to protect them at every possible turn. I'm trying to stop this guy from being let operate anywhere, anytime, any place.

Have you ever been under the influence of any drugs during the time that you were performing spinal surgery on any patient?

I take the first.

This was not an operation that was performed.

This was attempted murder.

Whoa, it don't take no vacation in his land.

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