This has freed hospitals from the fear of litigation, but its also removed the financial motivation for policing their own physicians. When he arrived in Dallas in late 2010, Duntsch's resume spoke of a skilled neurosurgeon: An M.D. So I called them up, and they said, Will you fill out a complaint, and well probably read the complaint in about 30 days, and well start an investigation after that., I said, You dont seem to understand. Young told D Magazine she was forced to move from her Dallas home after investigators started camping out on her street and attorneys started waiting in the stairwell of her apartment, looking for Duntsch. Dr. Death: Disgraced surgeon at center of podcast, show has CSU roots And Ill reflect back on how difficult those first months were afterwards. Duntsch appealed his sentence and lost the appeal in 2018. What is Christopher Duntsch AKA Dr Death's ex Kimberly - The Sun Wendy Young believed she had finally met her Prince Charming after crossing paths with Christopher Duntsch. In 2011, he founded a neurosurgery practice, Texas Neurosurgical Institute. So to be able to do that much wrong, I felt that he must have known at some point in time how to do it right. He explained the disturbing visit by saying he had been attacked by an investigator for an attorney hired by one of his patients, although that account was never verified. He was listed as a pre-business major, a university spokesperson confirmed Thursday. Christopher Daniel Duntsch (born April 3, 1971) [1] is a former American neurosurgeon who has been nicknamed Dr. D. and Dr. Death [2] for gross malpractice resulting in the maiming of several patients' spines and two deaths while working at hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.