Time for another review -- not like my voice really matters on these types of things, but why not, right?
In this post I will talk about another podcast addiction that I have developed.
D R. D E A T H
Of
course-the background on this podcast from Wondery Podcasts website:
We’re at our most vulnerable when we go to our doctors. We
trust the person at the other end of that scalpel. We trust the hospital. We
trust the system. Dr. Christopher Duntsch was a neurosurgeon who radiated confidence.
He claimed he was the best in Dallas. If you had back pain, and had tried
everything else, Dr. Duntsch could give you the spine surgery that would take
your pain away. But soon his patients started to experience complications. And
all they had to protect them was a system ill equipped to stop the madness.
From Wondery, the network behind the hit podcast Dirty John, DR. DEATH is about
a medical system that failed to protect these patients at every possible turn.
Reported and hosted by Laura Beil.
Dr.
Duntsch, a straight A student all throughout medical school, somehow starts to
mess up with surgeries... and I mean MESS UP BAD.
This
amazing podcast tells how a doctor is asked to help out with one of Dr.
Duntsch's surgeries when he is unavailable and that's when Dr. Duntsch is
discovered. A routine surgery that any trained medical staff could do, goes
horribly wrong. But why?
- Straight
A's
- Confident
in his abilities
- Raved about and recommended on his website
These are
all things people want to hear when considering major surgery.
Dr.
Duntsch fit the bill.
*queue
erie silence here*
Until his
patients start having major complications and start dying.
The
reason this podcast is so wonderful is because it goes through the horrifying
things that happened during his surgeries.
Now I
understand how that sounds weird, saying wonderful and horrific in the same
sentence, but it's because this podcast draws you in. You NEED and WANT to know
what happens and how he messes it up. It's wonderful in that aspect. Completely
horrible in the aspect of people's lives are ruined because of this man and his
carelessness.
The
podcast not only talks about Dr. Duntsch a.k.a. Dr. Death, but it focuses on
the health system and specifically hospitals and their procedures. The hospital
that employed Dr. Duntsch instead of getting his license revoked when things
mysteriously started going wrong, they let him go. To move onto another
hospital and make the same mistakes and kill more innocent lives.
The host,
Laura Beil, does such a good job with her research and trying to get down to
the bottom of why the hospital didn't try harder to get Dr. Death's license
revoked.
The
problem with the system is that, a neurosurgeon - a straight A neurosurgeon
might I add, is in high demand. It would have costed the hospital so much money
to try to get rid of Dr. Duntsch. So instead, they ignored the problem and
allowed his horrific acts to continue.
This
podcast is one for the books..? One for the ear? I'm not quite sure if that
phrase would remain the same for a podcast, but oh well. :)
Give it a
listen and let me know what you think.
K.
Bye.
