THE LIFE MEDICAL explores the lives and work of medical professionals across the country. Hosted by brain surgeon Dr. Peter Zahos, the series brings listeners inside the lives of doctors and medical staff working round the clock to heal the sick. Through intimate audio journals, interviews, and live medical recordings in the OR, ER and ICU, the audience is taken inside the real struggles and life-saving successes of those working in the medical arts.
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THE LIFE MEDICAL explores the lives and work of medical professionals across the country. Hosted by brain surgeon Dr. Peter Zahos, the series brings listeners inside the lives of doctors and medical staff working round the clock to heal the sick. Through intimate audio journals, interviews, and live medical recordings in the OR, ER and ICU, the audience is taken inside the real struggles and life-saving successes of those working in the medical arts.
We begin a special two-part episode of The Life Medical by examining the case of Christopher Duntsch, a.k.a. Dr. Death, the subject of the wildly popular podcast and recent docudrama on the Peacock streaming service. In less than two years of neurosurgical practice in Dallas, Duntsch amassed an 87% complication rate, meaning that 9 out of 10 of the patients he operated on were either maimed, paralyzed or killed. We analyze this staggering statistic with the help of one of the country’s foremost neurosurgeons, and then hear a first-hand account from the spine surgeon who operated on one of Duntsch’s complications. That case served as the basis for his conviction and life sentence. Even if you think you know all there is about the Dr. Death story, you’ll find there’s much, much more to uncover.
The Life Medical
THE LIFE MEDICAL explores the lives and work of medical professionals across the country. Hosted by brain surgeon Dr. Peter Zahos, the series brings listeners inside the lives of doctors and medical staff working round the clock to heal the sick. Through intimate audio journals, interviews, and live medical recordings in the OR, ER and ICU, the audience is taken inside the real struggles and life-saving successes of those working in the medical arts.
