THE REAL DR DEATH
Jul 15, 2021
2 minutes
• By Kylie Walters
For two years Christopher Duntsch went on a horrific crime spree across the US, which left two people dead and 31 paralysed or seriously injured. The neurosurgeon’s weapon of choice was his scalpel and he wielded it to murder or maim trusting patients.
The chilling tale of his gross malpractice is being brought to life. Based on the 2018 Wondery podcast of the same name, the series stars Joshua Jackson as the charismatic but wholly incompetent surgeon and explores not just his crimes, but the inadequacies within the US healthcare system that allowed him to keep harming his patients.
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