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Ex-Texas neurosurgeon sentenced to life for maiming patients [View all]
Source: Associated Press
Ex-Texas neurosurgeon sentenced to life for maiming patients
Feb. 20, 2017 5:18 PM EST
DALLAS (AP) — A jury has sentenced a former neurosurgeon to life in prison for maiming patients who had turned to him for surgery to resolve debilitating injuries.
The decision came Monday, almost a week after the Dallas County jury convicted 44-year-old Christopher Duntsch of first-degree felony injury to an elderly person.
Prosecutors alleged numerous cases of malpractice against the former Plano physician, including that he improperly placed screws and plates along patients' spines, left a sponge in another patient and cut a major vein in another.
Records show he operated on the wrong part of a patient's spine and left one woman wheelchair-dependent. Two patients died.
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Feb. 20, 2017 5:18 PM EST
DALLAS (AP) — A jury has sentenced a former neurosurgeon to life in prison for maiming patients who had turned to him for surgery to resolve debilitating injuries.
The decision came Monday, almost a week after the Dallas County jury convicted 44-year-old Christopher Duntsch of first-degree felony injury to an elderly person.
Prosecutors alleged numerous cases of malpractice against the former Plano physician, including that he improperly placed screws and plates along patients' spines, left a sponge in another patient and cut a major vein in another.
Records show he operated on the wrong part of a patient's spine and left one woman wheelchair-dependent. Two patients died.
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Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ae76af9bb6ce43f8a4ff7823922556d0/texas-neurosurgeon-sentenced-life-maiming-patients
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