Hi, I'm the host of Dr. Death, Laura Beale.

In an all-new season, I dig into the story of a surgeon who took advantage of a broken system

and the fight to bring him to justice.

There are people you're told to trust, lawyers, teachers, especially doctors.

But what happens when you put your life in someone's hands and they betray you?

Dr. Death, the cowboy, is the story of a charming neurosurgeon who rode into western towns selling a persona of confidence and care. He wore cowboy boots in the operating room and

became sought after by patients. He promised to heal them, to help them. Instead, he left a trail of broken bodies. This season

is about a doctor who's never truly been held accountable for the patients whose lives he ruined,

and a story of greed, betrayal, and a fight for justice that will leave you questioning who to trust.

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audible app or on Apple Podcasts. When they were called in, he sat at the edge of

the exam table. He was in his 60s, tall and wiry, and he began to lay it out for them.

I would go over the films with them and say, here's the problem. And then he told them what it meant.

We're going to have to do surgery. We just need to fix the fusions that never healed.

None of them healed.

Christy was speechless, trying to take it all in.

I said the first surgery from Dr. Schneider, he said, no, none of the hardware is healed, none of it.

And I'm picturing it in my head, all these screws and bolts in my mom's back just floating around.

And I asked him, I said so my mom was walking around with a broken back all this time.

He said, yeah, none of it's healed.

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