Texas Surgeon Gets Life In Prison - Dozens Maimed During Operations

A Dallas jury sentenced a neurosurgeon to life in prison after they heard from over a dozen patient who testified Christopher Duntsch seriously maimed them while they were under his knife.

Duntsch, who practiced medicine at various hospitals in Dallas and Collin counties, was accused of crippling four patients and causing the deaths of two others between July 2012 and June 2013. The 46-year-old was arrested in July 2015 on five aggravated-assault charges.
His 13-day trial in a Dallas County courtroom focused only on a charge of injury to an elderly individual — a first-degree felony where someone "intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence" injures an elderly person.

That victim, Mary Efurd, was 74 in 2012 when she went under Duntsch's knife and lost a third of her blood and the full use of her legs.
"I trusted him," Efurd testified three weeks ago. "I trusted that he would do what was right."
But a doctor who treated Efurd after her botched surgery said Duntsch had "done virtually everything wrong." Dr. Robert Henderson found implants placed in muscle instead of on bone, a screw drilled into her spinal cavity and a nerve root that had been amputated.