I don't know if there are such people around you: with various halos on their heads, they always pose a kind of "I am the first in the world", and many people who do not know the truth are still convinced, and even praise it, but in fact, the other party can not do anything at all.
Figure 丨 Dench
There is such a doctor in the United States, his "legendary" experience is really incomprehensible, at first glance, he is not only a medical genius with rich experience, but also a variety of titles and patents, it can be said that his resume is perfect.
But no one expected that in his career, he had only performed 37 surgeries, and among these 37 operations, 33 surgeries had serious medical accidents, and the failure rate of his surgery was "unprecedented".
So what kind of difficult surgery did he do? Or is the field of research cutting-edge medicine? No, most of these are surgeries with mature treatment regimens, and there are even many low-difficult surgeries.
During these operations, he not only made his good brother half paralyzed, but also put a medical investigator in a wheelchair, which directly led to the death of 2 patients.
So in the face of such a high failure rate, why can he still perform 37 surgeries in succession? What are the hidden secrets behind this? Hello everyone, I am a student of history, today we will talk about the story of this "death doctor" - Christopher Dungee:
Christopher Dunge was born on April 3, 1971 in Montana, in the northwestern United States, to a father who was a prominent missionary and physiotherapist, and his mother who was a teacher at a local school.
It can be said that Dench's parents have a decent job, which also gave Dench a very happy childhood, so Dench received a good education from an early age and also has a very rich experience.
But Dench's academic performance was actually not good, and eventually through a series of operations by his parents, Dench was successfully admitted to Colorado State University as a sports student.
Photo from Dungee's college days
However, Dunge's athletic talent is really very poor, although after college, he redoubled his efforts, but the talent is there, and his sports performance is always at the bottom of the school.
After barely graduating, Deng Qi entered the society, but Deng Qi, who had no real talent and practical learning, ran into walls everywhere, and finally could only choose to continue to return to school for further study.
So what do you want to learn? To say that this Dunge really has a bit of a "non-acceptance" spirit, he feels that although his athletic talent is poor, but the hands-on ability is strong, so he chose a discipline that can make a lot of money - medicine.
In 2004, Dunge entered the University of Tennessee Medical Center, where he spent a total of 6 years at the school, including 4 years of neurosurgery, 1 year of general surgery, and 1 year of spinal surgery training.
What people did not expect was that This Dench, who had messed up sports before, had achieved various unimaginable results in medicine.
Later, in Dench's 12-page glossy resume, it was found that In the process of studying medicine, Dench not only took various scholarships, but also won a number of honorary titles, and even had an exclusive patent for anti-cancer technology.
In 2010, when Deng Qi graduated, the tutor wrote in a special recommendation letter: "Deng Qi is very smart, the most diligent student I have ever met, and his work ethic, personality, and ability to deal with people are particularly outstanding." ”
So is Dench really that good? Later, after investigation, it was found that his 12-page long glossy resume could make soup with water.
Figure丨 Academic degree money (schematic)
For example, Dench wrote in his resume that he was soft on scholarships, but in fact, Dench's classmates said that Dench had only received low-grade scholarships a few times.
And these scholarships, or by virtue of his excellent communication skills to get, to say that this Dunge does have some advantages, that is, very good at dealing with people, he is also the most active person in the school, often rubbing the research results of teachers and classmates.
Therefore, Deng Qi's teachers think that Deng Qi is very good, but in fact, in the 6 years of medical study, Deng Qi has observed and studied only 76 kinds of surgeries, and compared with other students, most of them have to participate in hundreds of surgeries.
Moreover, the anti-cancer patent that Dunge obtained also did not stand up to scrutiny, that patent was not researched by him at all, but Dunge was flexible, and he opened a company during his schooling and commercialized the patent.
That is, in the process of commercializing the patent, Dench secretly added his own name, so can the other party agree? In fact, by the time the other party found out about this problem, it was already too late.
Because Dench lost the company, before the other party came to him to settle the account, the company went bankrupt, and Dench also carried a debt of 500,000 US dollars, so this matter can only be solved.
However, it was precisely because of the company's bankruptcy that Deng Qi realized that business was difficult to do, so When Deng Qi graduated in 2010, he chose to stop and find a job.
As we said before, Dench is very good at relationships, so when Dench was looking for a job, his mentor wrote him a very good letter of recommendation, in fact, with this letter of recommendation, Dench can find a good job.
But Dunge didn't think so, he was in debt of $500,000, and he needed to get his money quickly, so he worked his resume and forcibly packaged himself as a good medical genius.
Picture 丨 St. Jude Children's Hospital, USA
In order to increase his chips in finding a job, Dunge even wrote in his resume, he once worked at St. Jude's Children's Hospital in the United States and received a doctorate in microbiology.
In fact, Dench has never worked at St. Jude's Children's Hospital, and this hospital does not have the discipline of microbiology at all, which is a flawed lie, but even if it is a lie, there are still people who believe it.
At the end of 2010, the Plano branch of Baylor Medical Center in Texas took a fancy to Dunge, offered Dunge a base salary of $600,000 a year, and promised to increase the commission by another 40% if Dunge generated more than $800,000 a year for the hospital.
To say that this income is indeed very high, according to this income, Dench can not use a year to pay off the debt of 500,000 US dollars, but does this Dench really have the ability to earn so much money?
On July 1, 2011, Dunge successfully joined the Plano Branch and became a minimally invasive spine surgeon, just after completing the formalities, the hospital paid a salary of $200,000 in advance, and also intimately paid Deng Qi a settlement fee of $15,000.
This can make Dench very excited, he did not expect the money to be so good to earn, Dench himself is more than 1.8 meters tall, always with a confident smile on his face, coupled with his seemingly perfect resume, let the hospital feel that it is absolutely profitable to recruit him in.
Figure 丨 Dench personal packaging photo
So the hospital immediately carried out a series of packaging for him, and Dench was best at doing this kind of thing, he often uploaded photos of him talking and laughing with patients on the Internet, so soon Dunge's reputation grew bigger and bigger.
Colleagues also felt that this new medical genius was very good, and until this time, Dench had not done a single operation, but soon Dunge ushered in his first surgery, of course, it was also from this operation that the nightmare began.
The patient of this surgery is named Jerry Summers, he took the initiative to find Dunge, and he also knows that this is the first surgery in Dungee's career, so why should he be the first person?
Because, Summers is a good friend of Dunge's growing up, he suffered a small neck injury due to a car accident and needs a small operation for treatment.
When Summers learned that his good brother Dunge had become a doctor, he rushed to find Dunge and vowed to be the first patient under his brother's knife.
Pictured half-paralyzed Summers
Deng Qi is also very particular, patting his chest and guaranteeing to the good brother that this small operation is a piece of cake for him, and he will definitely be able to cure the good brother.
In order to celebrate this upcoming successful operation, they also sneaked out of the hospital the day before the operation and drank, to say that this Summers is also not long-hearted, you two have played from childhood to adulthood, don't you know what Dench is like?
Sure enough, not long after the operation began the next day, Dunge shook his hand and cut off one of the good brother's muscle tissues, which directly made Summers bleed.
However, this Dunge was not too nervous, he continued to tinker, with the help of his assistant, he finally saved the life of the good brother, but the good brother Summers was half paralyzed.
The first surgery of the medical genius Dench caused such a serious medical accident, which frightened the hospital, and Dench's career as a doctor may have ended.
But as a good brother, Summers is very particular, he took the initiative to tell the hospital, do not pursue The responsibility of Dunge, the hospital will not pursue the patients, naturally pretend to be deaf and dumb, so That Dungee's first surgery finally passed the puzzle.
Of course, the hospital re-evaluated Deng Qi's situation according to the usual practice, and finally determined that the medical accident was just an accident, and Deng Qi also went back to the operating table.
It should be noted here that a good doctor at that time could add at least $2.5 million a year to the hospital's income, so the hospital actually hoped that Dench would continue to work.
Did Dunge, who remained in the hospital, reflect on himself? Of course not, he still posed as if I was the number one in the world, and even bragged that he was the best doctor in Texas.
And Dench is very good at dealing with people, so many people say that Dench is very good, there are also patients who come to find Dunge for surgery, this Dench is also not rejected, anyway, you dare to find me, I dare to get the knife.
Next, in Dench's surgery, there are also various accidents frequently, but fortunately he has an assistant, many times it is the assistant who helps him clean up the mess, and some small medical accidents are also settled by Dunge with money.
Because of this, after only a few months of work, Dunge not only failed to pay off his previous debts, but also added another $600,000 famine, most of which was used to compensate patients.
So didn't these patients make trouble? Of course there was, but it didn't work, for example, a patient named Lee Pasmore has been chasing Dunge.
Pictured by Lee Passmore
Pasmore, a local medical investigator, suffered a minor back injury from an accident, and his health consultant had said he would just take a break without treatment.
But Pasmore always felt a faint pain in his back, and he told the health agent that he wanted to find a specialist to take a good look, so the health teacher recommended Dunge to him, saying that Dunge was a new medical genius.
When Passmore found Dunge, Dunge told him that he needed a spinal fusion to make a full recovery, and as a result, Pasmore was paralyzed in the middle after the operation.
When Parsmol woke up and learned that he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, he almost lost his breath, and then he began a protracted investigation of Dench.
But people don't want to believe Pasmore, because Pasmore is a medical investigator, that is, a doctor who specializes in investigating doctors, and people don't believe that any doctor dares to poison a medical investigator, thinking that this is an accident.
With Pasmore's investigation, the hospital also believed that this Dunge did not seem to be as good as the resume, and always caused trouble, so the hospital decided to fire Dunge.
But we said before that Dench was sociable, and when the hospital management just discussed this matter, Dench knew, so Dench submitted his resignation application in advance, so Dench took the initiative to resign.
So why did Dench voluntarily resign? Because the United States has established a national database of doctors since 1990, according to the rules of the time, if the hospital dismisses Dunge, it is necessary to fill in the detailed reasons in the database.
And these reasons are naturally not good for Dunge, and even cause Dench to be unable to become a doctor in the future, but if Dench voluntarily resigns, the hospital does not need to fill in this information in the database, in fact, this is a loophole.
Of course, Dench knew about this loophole, so he took the initiative to resign, so that he could continue to look for work in other hospitals, and the hospital did not want to publicize this matter, after all, publicizing it was not good for the reputation of the hospital, so Dunge's experience was hidden.
After leaving the hospital, Dunge took his glamorous resume and found a new job to continue as a doctor at a hospital called Dallas Medical Center.
Ironically, the hospital decided to hire Dunge because Dench had extensive surgical experience at the previous hospital, which was naturally deliberately glorified by Dench.
Because of Dench's "rich experience", Dallas Medical Center quickly arranged 3 surgeries for Dungee, and as a result, Dungee was too angry and caused serious medical accidents one after another.
Dench's first surgery here was a cervical spine surgery, which resulted in an accidental puncture of the patient's left vertebral artery, causing the patient to bleed profusely and dying of a severe ischemic stroke soon after the operation.
Dench's second surgery was his "best" spinal fusion surgery, and as a result, during the operation, he not only accidentally removed some of the patient's nerve roots, but also twisted 2 screws, eventually causing the patient to be paralyzed.
As soon as he arrived at the hospital, there were 2 serious accidents in succession, if the average person would have been scared silly, but this Dun qike was the same, he was not only not afraid, but also looked like he was ready to start the third operation.
Picture 丨 One of the victims
However, at this time, all the medical staff in the operating room were firmly opposed to Dench doing the third operation, and it was through the efforts of these medical staff that the third patient was far away from Dench's poisonous hands.
The Dallas Medical Center immediately sent someone to investigate Dunge's surgery, and the investigating doctor, after carefully studying Dunge's surgical process, was surprised to say that he doubted whether Dench had studied medicine.
The investigative doctor was very responsible, and even specifically asked the school where Dench graduated to see if Dench had been impersonated, and the school did not reply to the doctor on the grounds that it involved the privacy of the students.
But in any case, the Dallas Medical Center decided not to let Dench participate in the operation again, and asked Dench to leave the hospital immediately, it can be said that this time the hospital was very fast, and there was no chance for Dench to leave voluntarily.
So the information about Dench should be uploaded to the database, right? Not really! Because Dunge was in probation at the time, that is, he was not formally hired by Dallas Medical Center, and according to the relevant provisions of the database, the doctor who was expelled during the probationary period did not need to be reported.
So Dunge escaped another disaster, and after leaving, he continued to work in a number of hospitals according to the previous method, but each time he was forced to leave because of medical malpractice, but because these hospitals did not want to be out of trouble, Dungee has not been dealt with.
In this way, Dunge has operated on a total of 37 patients in about two years. Among them, 33 patients developed serious sequelae such as nerve damage, high paraplegia, and hemiplegia, and 2 patients died.
So how exactly was Dench discovered? It turned out that during Dench's 37th surgery, there was also a serious medical accident, and the patient at that time was named Jeff and underwent cervical spine surgery.
However, during the operation, Dunge accidentally cut off Jeff's vocal cords, punctured one of Jeff's arteries, and then cut a hole in Jeff's esophagus, which also made Jeff's wound bleed.
At this point, it was supposed that Dench should have stopped Jeff's bleeding right away, but he said that Jeff had a tumor on his blood-blurred neck and needed a doctor.
The hospital had no choice but to send a doctor named Randall Kirby to the rescue, Dr. Kirby was very experienced, and when he arrived at the scene, he found that the so-called tumor was actually a muscle cut by Dench.
Dr. Kirby was furious after the emergency rescue of the patient, believing that Dench did not deserve to be a doctor, which Was dunge did on purpose, so shortly after the operation, Dr. Kirby responded to the situation to the Texas Medical Council and asked for a thorough investigation of Dunge.
Pictured by Randall Kirby
In fact, the Texas Medical Board has received 2 complaints about Dungee before this, 1 of which was complained by the previous medical investigator Pasmore; the other is a joint complaint by 2 doctors that Dunge does not understand medicine.
However, at that time, the Texas Medical Board believed that it was normal for related complications to occur during neurosurgery, so it did not pay special attention to this matter.
But this time, the famous Dr. Kirby also complained, and finally attracted the attention of the medical committee, they immediately investigated Dunge, only to find that Dunge had caused so many medical accidents in just 2 years from 2011 to 2013.
For example, once When Dench was halfway through the operation, he actually proposed to terminate the operation, on the grounds that when it was time to leave work, he had to go home to rest.
In the course of the investigation, the medical committee also found that Dench had many vices, not only frequent drinking, but also suspected of taking prohibited drugs, which caused Dench to be often confused, which may also be the reason why Dench frequently caused medical accidents.
However, although Dench has a lot of false information on his resume, Dench is indeed a doctor with professional qualifications, so the Medical Committee only suspended Dench's professional qualifications and did not impose special sanctions on Dench.
This result was difficult for Dr. Kirby and the patients concerned to accept, and everyone took action to collect various evidence of Dunge's crimes and apply to the prosecution to prosecute Dunge, but the process was very long, and it took another 2 years.
When the time came to 2015, Dunge's case was finally put on the litigation agenda under the impetus of a judge who knew the victim, but at this time, the judge and prosecutor made another difficulty.
Because according to the investigation, Dunge did not intentionally cause these medical accidents, that is to say, the occurrence of these accidents was caused by Dench's lack of skill, then if from this point of view, Dench did not need to bear too heavy legal consequences.
However, if such a judgment is made, it is difficult to satisfy the victims, let alone explain to the relevant media and the public, because this case has attracted a large number of people's attention over time, so judges and prosecutors must take it seriously.
Picture 丨Dance was on trial
Finally, in 2017, after a long period of research by judges and prosecutors, Dench was sentenced to life in prison and 30 years without parole for "using a lethal weapon for malicious attacks", and the so-called lethal weapon was Dunge's hand and scalpel.
From the above, it can be seen that so many tragedies caused by Dungee can actually be avoided, but it is because of people's irresponsibility that tragedies have occurred one after another.
For example, when the tutor writes a letter of recommendation, he carefully verifies Deng Qi's true skills; when the hospital hires Deng Qi, he carefully verifies Deng Qi's resume; when Deng Qi leaves, the hospital does not choose to calm down; the entry rules of the American doctor database can plug loopholes...
The lessons of this series of tragedies are tragic, and later people also made a special film "Death Doctor" to warn future generations, and interested friends can go to watch it.
Picture 丨 "Doctor Death" stills
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