For some of his patients, the criminal case offered a last chance at justice they couldnt get through the civil courts. By the time Duntsch operated on Glidewell, the state medical board had been investigating him for about 10 months. Kill me, kill me, I want to die, Jennifer Miller, his girlfriend at the time, said in the podcast. Jerry suffered from chronic neck pain from an injury he had sustained years ago in a car accident. Out of respect for the patients and families involved, and the privileged nature of a number of details, we must continue to limit our comments. Her career in entertainment lasted eighty years and in 1982 she achieved stardom as Phyllis Pearce, in Granada Television's long-running soap opera Coronation Street.She made her last appearance in To this day, he can only eat food in small bites and has nerve damage. At dawn, Duntsch slipped on his white coat and headed for rounds at the hospital. I, with reluctance, went down there and met the Glidewell family and took care of him, Kirby said. The Victims Of Dr. Christopher Duntsch In the roughly two years that Duntsch a blue-eyed, smooth-talking former college football player had practiced medicine in Dallas, he had operated on 37 patients. Henderson cleaned out bone fragments. You cant sell our material separately or syndicate it. Passmore did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Jerry Summers was a former patient of Dr Death back in 2011. [7], In 1957 she landed her big break with her own television series, Summers Here, which featured a different star guest each week, such as Wilfrid Hyde White, Michael Bentine and Terence Alexander. Ultimately, at least 19 of Duntschs patients or their survivors obtained settlements, but 14 of them were represented by Van Wey, who said shes taken them on more out of a sense of outrage than out of any financial upside. Hes got to be stopped.. After Duntschs disastrous run at Dallas Medical Center, he was finally reported to the state medical board. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. Their rejection was based on Duntschs substandard or inadequate care at Baylor-Plano. Miller taught himself to read, came to Chattanooga in October of that year, and accepted a job as pressman for the Chattanooga Gazette (1839-186__). They patented technology to obtain and grow disk stem cells, and in 2008, they launched a company, DiscGenics, to develop and sell such products. The prosecutors had Morgan read parts of an email Duntsch had sent to her in the early morning hours of Dec. 11, 2011, three weeks before he operated on Passmore at Baylor-Plano, the first of his surgical disasters.
