![]() He decided he’d be a neurosurgeon and was not going to let anything, including lack of skill or training, stop him in his quest. This attitude and outlook stuck with Duntsch as he set out to achieve something beyond football and landed on surgery. Death sums up the confusion many felt at watching Duntsch work: “It was like he knew what he was supposed to do … and he did the exact opposite.” One conversation in Peacock’s first episode of Dr. Death, which jumps across time in each episode to show what the doctor was like as a young man, friend and medical student, and then later as a surgeon, a partner and a father. ![]() The question of how Duntsch was able to operate with impunity for so long-when surrounded by many people who tried to raise the alarm and failed-drives Dr. Such significant injuries should have been “never events”-something that should never occur in an operating room, a surgeon told D Magazine, which covers the Dallas-Fort Worth area, in a 2016 piece that inspired the eventual Dr. One patient, a childhood friend of Duntsch’s, went in for a spinal operation with someone he trusted and woke up a quadriplegic after the doctor damaged his vertebral artery. Two patients died, one from significant blood loss after the operation and the other from a stroke caused by a cut vertebral artery. Some people woke up paralyzed others emerged from anesthesia to permanent pain from nerve damage. How does a doctor get away with something like this? Of the 37 patients Duntsch operated on in Dallas over about two years, 33 were hurt or harmed in the process.
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