Summers is a former patient of Christopher Duntsch, who was nicknamed "Dr. Death." Duntsch is serving a life sentence in prison after killing and maiming more than 30 patients while working in the . Were you in the car listening to the podcast on the way to the grocery store and you said, 'Oh my God, I've got to make a limited series out of this?'. I didnt want listeners to grow tired of peoples pain. I am ready to leave the love and kindness and goodness and patience that I mix with everything else that I am and become a cold blooded killer., The sad fact is that I would go faster do better and catch more respect and honor by f***ing every one in the brain, emotionally and mentally controlling them in a manner that borders on abuse, taking no prisoners, and sending everyone in my way, and especially that f***s with me to hell for the simple fact that they thought they could much less tried, 1 week and then everything unraveled. And I dont know that he really ever even wanted to be a neurosurgeon. Coverage of Duntschs case, the podcast series and the now-streaming Peacock series all make sure to underscore that his story is part of a major systemic failurea common theme in true crime stories. And I had none of those things. Over the course of two years, Christopher Duntsch operated on 38 patients in the Dallas area. She also said that he kept a pile of cocaine on his dresser in his home office. Dr. Death, a story Wonderys producers heard about through Dirty Johns tips email, feels perhaps less like a show on Oxygen, though its arguably more relevant. The doctor denies doing anything wrong. Because the reality is, is that we're a training craft business. And so, one of the overriding things is that when he was at a hospital and it would become apparent how incompetent he was, the hospital would let him go, but they wouldnt do it in such a way that would warn everybody else. 5 years after 'Dr. Death,' doctors still come to Texas to leave pasts Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. And I need to think of it, not as a patient, but as a customer, which is a very difficult thing because you're in an extremely vulnerable place anytime you're interacting with the medical system. Death' Review: Joshua Jackson Is Terrific in Terrifying Peacock Series That's as Sharp as a Scalpel. I was working on a show called Happy [for SyFy] and I was sent the first three episodes of the podcast that hadn't come out yet. Paying Tribute to the Celebrities Who Have Died in 2023, The True Story Behind Netflix's 'The Good Nurse', The True Story Behind Hulu's 'Welcome to Chippendales'. One woman remembered Duntsch taking LSD and cocaine throughout one night, before leaving the next morning for his hospital shift. The patient Duntsch operated on continues to walk with a cane and lives with chronic pain. Crucially, as is recounted in careful detail in the podcast, in part because of the voluntary exit, Baylor-Plano was not required to report Duntschs actions to the National Practitioner Data Bank, a resource medical professionals and hospital administrators use to track which doctors have been fired, suspended, had their licenses revoked or have had to make malpractice payments. And so there was no world where they were going to let him speak to me. The nightmare at the center of Dr. Death, a new Peacock drama inspired by the 2018 true crime podcast of the same name from Wondery, involves a surgeon who seems intent on using his scalpel to destroy the lives of his patientsand a medical system content to let him skate by. In terms of the production, were you shooting at all chronologically or was itwere you kind of bouncing between time periods? I know you talked to a lot of his college friends, how far back into Duntschs childhood did you want to go? Well, thats what takes six episodes to tell. So we had all of the tools at our disposal. "License to Kill" and "Botched" host advises on how - YouTube Joshua Jackson on Not Playing Dr. Death as an Evil Man Christopher Duntsch was just a regular guy who became Dr. Death after he decided to be a neurosurgeon. Well, if you want to just put in there that after the first episode its a lot less gruesome. Because how can I do anything I want and cross every discipline boundary like its a playground and never ever lose. That was a big focus of Collider's one-on-one interview with Joshua Jackson, who spoke openly about the differences between the American and Canadian health care systems and why it's an important step for shows like Dr. Death to include an all-female directing team (Maggie Kiley, Jennifer Morrison, and So Yong Kim directed the eight episodes). And now you have to have empathy for the people who are the victims of your central character. Duntsch, 44, is being held inthe Dallas County Jail on $600,000 bail on charges involving the death of one patient and the injuring of four others. But from a script, youre asking people to remember everything you just told them. I can tell you that I do believe that he was a product of nature, nurture and the system that enabled him to be able to do what he did. As long as I could do the reporting and the writing, they were willing to show me the rest, and it worked out great. We would be lauding him for what he was doing because to this day, several of his patents are still being used in the use of stem cells and neurosurgery. Peacock released the series to complement its scripted portrayal of the story, Dr. Death, which released a couple of weeks ago and stars Joshua Jackson as the titular character. Sure, yeah. According to Summers, he first met Duntsch in junior high school in Tennessee when they both played football together and remembered him being a "real smart" and "hard-working guy." As an undergraduate in college, Duntsch even lived with Summers and Summers' grandmother. Later, following another accusation that he was abusing drugs before doing surgeries, Duntsch was relegated to mostly minor surgical procedures at the hospital. Prior to serving as Senior TV Editor at Collider, her work had been published by Vulture, Variety, The AV Club, The Hollywood Reporter, IGN, The Verge, and Thought Catalog. The show was Dr. Death, from Wondery, the same podcast production company that brought us Dirty John, last years thoroughly addictive series about a stalker/con artist who inserted himself into one Orange County family and nearly tore them apart. He was putting stuff in the wrong place.
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