Was Doctor Bad at His Job Or ‘stone Cold Killer' Who Deliberately Botched Surgeries? Dallas Jury Deliberates

A Dallas jury has begun deliberating the fate of a surgeon whose patients say he deliberately maimed them in a series of botched back surgeries.Christopher Duntsch, who practiced medicine at various hospitals in Dallas and Collin counties, is accused of maiming four patients and causing the death of at least two between July 2012 and June 2013. Duntsch, 44, is being tried on a first-degree felony charge of injury to an elderly individual.That victim, Mary Efurd, was 74 years old at the time of her 2012 surgery. Prosecutors say she lost a third of her blood and the use of her leg as a result of that operation.  Continue reading...

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