Police have finally arrested a former Dallas surgeon charged with using his hands so ineptly they could be considered deadly weapons.
Ex neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch, who was allegedly such a dunce at surgery he actually killed some of his patients and left others permanently injured, was captured last week when he blithely returned to the state that revoked his license in 2013.
Texas also had several outstanding indictments against the embattled physician, so, when he was visiting with his young kids in Dallas County last month, police paid him a visit.
Duntsch is accused of a variety of lethal and potentially-lethal malpractices, including leaving a sponge in one patient and operating on the wrong area of another’s spine, thus rendering her forever wheelchair bound.
Doctors aren’t typically prosecuted for being talentless, of course, but the defendant’s case was so over the top and the numerous charges of criminal neglect in the performance of his duties were further compounded by evidence of having been on drugs and/or drunk.
The Dallas doc who used his hands like deadly weapons now faces at least five counts of aggravated assault for botching treatments and operations, in addition to a handful of civil suits from slaying or seriously harming his patients.
He’s currently jailed in lieu of posting a $600,000 bond.
