The podcast I chose is Dr. Death. This podcast is a true\ncrime genre podcast based on the infamous neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch.\nDuntsch was a neurosurgeon practicing in hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area\nwho was convicted of gross malpractice after nearly 30+ of his patients were\nleft severely injured and 2 died as a result of him operating on them. The podcast\nhas an underlying agenda; which is to expose the faults of the health system in\nAmerica and explore how exactly something like this could have happened when so\nmany are trusting the system. As stated by the narrator \u201cWe\u2019re at our most vulnerable\nwhen we go to our doctors. We trust the person at the other end of the scalpel.\nWe trust the hospital. We trust the system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The podcast has a single narrator so far Laura Beil. The series\nstarts off with demonstrating the incompetence and neglect patients felt at the\nhand of Dr. Duntsch. It is made severely compelling by using testimonials of a\nnurse who worked with Duntsch in the operating room and a practicing surgeon (Dr.\nHenderson) who was asked to be responsible for correcting the misdeeds done to\ntwo patients by Duntsch. The way these interviews paint Duntsch are horrifying.\nThe narrator furthers the intrigue of the listener by explain in detail the\nemotions and convictions of the people she is interviewing. For instance she\nexplains how Dr. Robert Henderson is described as a man who normally follows\nhis own path and stays out of other people\u2019s business but once he had seen the\npatients under Duntsch\u2019s care and witnessed as he put it, the grave atrocity Duntsch\ncommitted, he was compelled to pursue retribution for these patients against\nDr. Duntsch. There are also sound effects and music used during these times to deepen\nthe feeling of the reader as to immerse them in the experience of the\ninterviewer hearing these testimonials and feeling the betrayal committed by Duntsch.\nThis was an interesting way to start the series because it gives the listener a\nchance to feel and experience how Duntsch grossly manipulated others using his\nposition, which is trusted by so many in the health system, to gravely hurt\npeople. For instance, one of the patients was left brain dead and the other was\nleft paralyzed in the legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The feeling of disdain for Duntsch is furthered as the\nseries progresses into explaining the emotional character of Duntsch. Interviews\nof old friends and acquaintances are used in this part, like the interview of\nthe physician and nurse in the first episode. The interview paints a picture of\nDuntsch as an incompetent person who is unable to realize his short comings in\nalmost everything he did. There is an interview of a fellow football player who\nknew Duntsch when he played and how he was always the one who would run the\ndrill and mess it up completely but keep trying but never able to get it under\ncontrol. Then they turn to a friend who had helped Duntsch for years as he was\ngetting started in his practice. Jerry was a friend to Duntsch who was left completely\nparalyzed by the malpractice of Duntsch. The listener can feel the emotion of everyone\ninterviewed for this podcast. The podcast relies heavily on interviews and testimonials\nabout Duntsch as well as recapping of atrocities and life occurrences of his.\nThe way they presented the first episode as a recap of just one of the\nhospitals he committed these heinous crimes set up the interest and investment\nof the listener as a way to show that this was a man who wanted to hurt people\nas presented further on in the podcast as presented through interviews. It brings\nto the mind of the listener, how is it possible that this man was board approved\nto begin practicing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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