This Texas Neurosurgeon Has Been Sentenced To Life In Prison After Maiming Several Patients
This Texas Neurosurgeon Has Been Sentenced To Life In Prison After Maiming Several Patients
After many, many lawsuits, the permanent injury of several patients and the deaths of two, Texan neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch has been sentenced to life in prison. Do you think he should spend the rest of his days behind bars?
After many, many lawsuits, the permanent injury of several patients and the deaths of two, Texan neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch has been sentenced to life in prison. Do you think he should spend the rest of his days behind bars?
Some of his patients were left in wheelchairs. Some of his patients died. Now, Christopher Duntsch has finally been sentenced to life in prison.
Last week, he was convicted of first-degree injury to an elderly person. Now, after being accused of multiple counts of misplacing screws and plates, operating on completely incorrect places, leaving sponges in patients, severing a major vein in one patient resulting in the loss of the use of one leg, and killing two other patients, Duntsch is headed for prison. According to the daughter of one of the patients he killed:
[It] won’t obviously bring my mom back and it won’t heal the 34 people that have been affected, but it will bring some sense of justice and particularly some sense of closure.
Caitlin Martin-Linduff
New York Daily News, February 21, 2017
While Duntsch's attorneys argued that he wasn't a criminal, just a terrible doctor, the weight of the testimonies against him was simply overwhelming. The primary prosecution came on behalf of the patient who lost the use of their leg due to a severed vein, Mary Efurd.
I trusted him. I trusted that he would do what was right.
Mary Efurd
New York Daily News, February 21, 2017
But now, what we'd like to know is...
Do you agree with Duntsch's life sentence?
Do you agree with Duntsch's life sentence?