Disabled victim Mary said after the trial: "When they finally got his licence suspended I cried for two days. Duntsch told The Dallas Morning News in 2014 that "99 percent of everything that has been said about me is completely false." Speaking in the low rasp - still all she can muster today - she tells TV news channel Inside Edition: "They didn't know if I would survive.". By the time it was over, she’d lost a half-gallon of blood and the use of her legs.
Mary has been confined to a wheelchair ever since she went under Duntsch's knife, and today the 80-year-old still can't stand up for more than ten minutes at a time. They ranged from Kellie Martin, who bled to death after a relatively common procedure called a laminectomy. He lasted less than a week before another patient - Floella Brown - died on his watch when he slit a vertebral artery, which triggered a stroke. Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, When Mary awoke from a back operation, she screamed in pain and found her legs weren't working, Dr Christopher Duntsch had a habit of botching his surgeries and maiming his patients, Mary was left wheelchair bound after he treated her for back pain, People disfigured by 'Dr Death' Christopher Duntsch speak out against the surgeon, Duntsch has faced claims of negligence from over 30 patients he has operated on, Lee Passmore describes the pain of his botched operation as being like an ice pick inserted into his back, How Christopher Duntsch cut vocal chords and botched spine ops, The surgeon thought of himself as a a cross between God and the Antichrist, Dr Duntsch even described himself as a 'cold-blooded killer', Kellie Martin died of massive blood loss after an operation at the hands of Dr Death, Patient Philip Mayfield was left paralysed by horror doctor Christopher Duntsch, Jeff Glidewell was left with a sponge lodged in his throat, Jerry Summers' life was changed forever by the nightmare of a botched operation, Jerry left Dr Death's operating theatre as a quadriplegic, The negligent doctor is now being made the subject of a true-crime podcast, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Another patient, Jeff Glidewell, almost lost his voice forever after Duntsch mistook his esophagus for a tumour and sliced into it. The first minimally invasive surgery at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano went just fine, but her pain was still there, so she went back to Duntsch who suggested another surgery in a lower part of her spine. His licence was revoked by the Texas Medical Board in 2013, which found that he had violated standards of care for his patients. Producers will be hoping that the warped tale of Dr Death will be just as gripping, following on from the success of other cult crime podcasts like Serial.