Laura Beil
Laura Beil is a freelance journalist who was awarded 2018 Victor Cohn Prize for Medical Science Reporting
A surgeon so bad it was criminal
/ 14 August 2021

A surgeon so bad it was criminal

Christopher Duntsch’s surgical outcomes were so outlandishly poor that Texas prosecuted him for harming patients. Why did it take so long for the systems that are supposed to police problem doctors to stop him from operating?