Last week, she had her third child, this one with her new partner. Was he was only in it for the research prestige and the money? For the DA though she proved to be a good witness. But Passmore is one of the lucky ones. He was a phenomenal partner right up until the pandemic hit and we got shut down. Wendy Young knew her ex-boyfriend Christopher Duntschs medical career was unraveling, but she wasnt prepared for what she said was his bizarre behavior that coincided with his fall from grace as a surgeon. Thats when we stumbled across the gap, Passmore says. She had family in Dallas and decided shed go with him if he chose that city. They lived in a future colleagues condo at the W Hotel while they looked for a home in Plano, close to where Duntsch would be practicing. But for his victims, the judgment was a big relief. To be a good doctor, you have to be a good human being. Base compensation was $600,000 a year for two years, beginning on June 14, 2011. Something was wrong, one lawsuit alleges, whether it be impairment from drugs, alcohol, mental illness, or a combination of all three. His first and only surgery with Minimally Invasive Spine Institute was on a Thursday at Baylor Plano. Matt Goodman is the online editorial director for. Duntsch calls thisand most other claimsnonsense. While the show features the exes as the parents to one son, they had two kids together in real life. Christopher Duntsch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. Ghostbar, Dragonfly at Hotel Zaza. Brown had a massive stroke overnight that left her in a vegetative state, and her family chose to remove life support days later. Duntsch has a court date next month for the shoplifting case along with the unrelated matter of a criminal trespass complaint filed against him last fall. Prosecutors used testimony from patients and the doctors who corrected their surgeries to argue that Duntsch's outcomes were more than mere medical error. They met as Duntsch was looking for opportunities in an operating room somewhere. Kirby reported having direct knowledge of seven patients that Dr. Finally, it was the Texas Medical Board (TMB) that acted too late, too little. But Hoyle says an X-ray later showed it was positioned too far to the left. Wendy Renee Young and Christopher Duntsch were parents of two kids, Preston and Aiden. Seven more doctors voiced complaints before TMB finally canceled Dr. Death's license. Dallas surgeon Randall Kirby says his former colleague, Dr. Christopher Duntsch, managed to commit crimes so heinous that patients everywhere are still struck by fear when they hear about the case . During this time, out of three procedures, one patient died and another was partially paralyzed. The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education has strict rules about residency programs. But she wasnt in the room when he woke up a quadriplegic, telling anyone with ears that Duntsch had been using cocaine the night before the procedure. According to Young, there was even a ransom note for her and her two children written in blood. Hoyle stepped in front of Duntsch to block his way. But it was growing increasingly clear that his opportunities were running out. That July, Duntsch was firing off panicked emails to his business partners at 4 am on a Monday morning: My reputation has been ruined, he wrote. Duntsch began cheating on. He was shocked at the CT scan: the spinal fusion hardware sat in her soft tissue. But hed make troubling, bizarre pronouncements, like Everybodys doing it wrong. The seeds of greed were sown. At this point, Ive had enough and so I called the police.. Unlike Summers, Brown, 63, suffered from hypertension and was a stroke risk. Duntsch's resume shows a doctorate in microbiology from the St. Jude Children'sResearch Hospital. It was hearsay, he contended. He did earnhis M.D., doing so well that he was among the 12 percent of medical school graduates in his class named to the elite Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Duntsch had allegedly tried to steal the pair of pants by changing into the new pair in a Wal-Mart dressing room and placing his own pants into the shopping cart. 33 of his surgeries went horribly wrong. According to Irving-based physician recruitment firm Merritt Hawkins, a single neurosurgeon produced his or her hospital an average revenue of $2.45 million in 2015. Duntsch, again, maintains this wasnt true. He said, "What I am being is what I am, one of kind, a mother f****r stone cold killer that can buy or own or steal or ruin or build whatever he wants.". Over this period, Duntschperformed back surgeries that left his patients in a worse condition,paralyzed, ordeceased. No autopsy was done (at the familys request) but it is well-documented that the stroke was due to a left vertebral artery injury due to Dr. Duntschs horrendous surgical technique, wrote surgeon Randall Kirby in a letter to the Texas Medical Board. Christopher Duntsch, 44, faces up to life in prison if convicted. In November 2011, Passmore was hooked on prescription opiates. Dubbed angels of death, they leave a trail of damage andloss for many reasons: human fallibility, malaise, or malice. He is a graduate of Evangelical Christian School in the Cordova suburb of Memphis, where he starred in football. He was the eldest of four. The notorious neurosurgeon was forced to declare bankruptcy shortly after and moved back in with his parents in Colorado. Next week marks the five-year anniversary of Texas neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch being sentenced to life in prison. To add to this, his so-called Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center may also be dubious. He also discovered a way to produce stem cells from intervertebral discs in cultures outside the body. According to his lawsuit, Morguloff wound up with searing pain in his back and left leg from bone fragments lodged in his spinal canal during the operation, which were only discovered eight months later when he sought a second opinion. They eventually went back to his home, dancing to music under a disco ball he had in his office. Young puts Morgan there, too, although Morgan denied it in her deposition. is a beautiful and populous city located in Montana U.S. . Multiple lawsuits allege that Baylor did not report Duntsch to the National Practitioner Data Bank, which was created by Congress to be a private clearinghouse of physicians who have been suspended or had their privileges revoked. He decided to turn to clinical work. Suite 2100 At the time, Young was giving birth to their second boy. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He wears a gray-and-black-striped uniform, not unlike a set of scrubs. At the time, Duntsch was accused of injuring 33 out of 38 patients in less than two years before the Texas Medical Board revoked his license. He says that surgery happened earlier in the week, and that it was he who called Rimlawi and asked him to check on the patient. It said, Anyone close to me thinks that I likely am something between god, einstein, and the antichrist. I cant write on this form, Oh, by the way, I heard from Dr. Henderson about what sounds like major patient issues that you ought to look into, Foley said in the call. The hospital called Rimlawi when it couldnt reach his colleague. I thought is this somebody that youve pissed off? He harmed the very people who trusted him. Mary Efurd, 74, was to have two vertebrae fused, linked by a metal plate. After graduating as a physician with above-average grades, he had his whole life ahead of him. Christopher Daniel Duntsch was born in Montana on April 3, 1971, and raised alongside his three siblings in an affluent suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. Instead, he thought about all those years he spent working and educating himself, all those years of paying bills on time to keep his credit high, of saving money to support his family. Duntsch made a major miscalculation when he ventured south into Dallas to practice. Kukekov had discovered stem cells in human brain tumors, which presented a huge potential for the development of new cancer drugs. In March 2012, Duntsch performed alaminectomy on Kellie Martin to reduce her back pain after afallat home. You know, hell call and say goodnight to his boys, um, sometimes hell have bedtime stories and try to be as normal as possible.. He has taken Baylor Plano to court to change the Texas law requiring patients to prove that a hospital intended to harm them when it granted privileges to someone who was unsafe. So the hospitals he worked for knew of his carelessness and sociopathic behavior in the OR. Unfortunately, it became the patients' burden to bear. That said; the 12 jurors did what the Texas Medical Board should have done. He wrote, "You will not find a harder working or more willing individual." Finally, in July 2015, the Dallas County District Attorneys Office followed through. By November, he had surgical privileges to operate on patients. In 2005, about a third of the way through the six-year program, department chairman Dr. Jon Robertson appointed him program director of the schools tissue bank, where hed supply samples to scientists and oversee two labs. Duntsch ended up slicing her vertebral artery, stopping blood and oxygen flow to her brain. She was a stay-at-home mom to their two children, Preston and Aiden; her income was tied to Duntschs. He would climb a ladder and take aerial photos of crime scenes to aid in the death investigation. Duntsch allegedly performed the operation and flew out to Las Vegas without securing a call physician. The evidence said otherwise. Even the hospitals that he worked for kept enabling him, according to a report by the Dallas County prosecutors. She was deposed over Skype since, at the time, she was stationed with the Air Force in the Middle East. He struggles with incontinence. What isscarierare the 12 names that follow his. The other survivors suffered damage, disability,and excruciating pain. Duntsch is now living out his life behind bars, but Young told CNBC'sAmerican Greed earlier this year that the former neurosurgeon still regularly talks with his two young sons. Strangely enough, Dr. Boop also mentioned, "I have not operated with Chris." His fellow neurosurgeons found him to be fast-talking and cocksure, a bit of a loner. The arrest report said he was driving on two flat tires. I'd call him a sociopath." By the time the Dallas County district attorney's office got involved and brought criminal charges against. Duntsch told Morgan a different story. Investigations took patients and attorneys back to where Duntsch had had such a promising beginningin Memphis, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where he earned both an M.D. A longtime field agent for the Collin County Medical Examiner, Passmore needed knowledge from his training at scenes. A veteran investigative reporter in the medical field, her voice enthralls. On Jan. 10, 2014, Denver police arrested him for driving under the influence. Duntsch had moved from the W to Hotel Zaza and then, finally, to a five-bedroom house not far from the hospital. Duntsch could have turned it into something good and meaningful. He met Duntsch that day in the physician lounge at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano, where the operation occurred. He may have figured, at first, that he was protected. His mom was a teacher. But he was apprehended trying to leave the store. Facebook Dr. Christopher Duntsch on his first day as a neurosurgeon. Passmore was allowed to resign and still access his long-term disability insurance, which he says hed paid into for more than 10 years. and a Ph.D. But then came that fax, and he saw Duntschs name next to Kellie Martins. The next year, in 2006, Duntsch became more money-minded. When the story about Christopher Duntsch finally broke, it affected his patients, or rather, hisvictims, but many people missed it. Morgan, in her deposition, said Duntsch called her to say he got lost going to the lab and never took the test. We certainly would not knowingly allow one person to compromise the level of quality care that we have worked so hard and invested so much to achieve for our patients and our community.. The real question is:Why couldn't anyone stop him in time? The attorneys claimed she knew about the drugs and his drug-addled OR trips but did nothing to stop them. The civil attorneys in these cases were able to land a rather damning e-mail sent from Duntsch to his girlfriend/physical assistant.The girlfriend was Kimberly Morgan, and in the e-mail to her, the ramblings of a mind gone wrong are clear. That only lasted for a short while, as he dove deep into the role to bring out the evil of the real-life character in the eight-episode series, he told New York Post. Sproles issued a letter to Duntsch that read: There have been no summary or administrative restrictions or suspensions of Dr. Duntschs Medical Staff membership or clinical privileges during the time he has practiced at Baylor Reg. Thus, his license was revoked for good on December 6, 2013. Soon though, red flags began to pop up.