{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable","title":"Prosecuting “Dr. Death”: Lead DA Michelle Shughart on How She Put a Surgeon Behind Bars","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2417,"description":"What does it take to put a doctor in prison for what he did in the operating room?\nIn this powerful episode of AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable, host Kay Van Wey sits down with Michelle Shughart, the lead prosecutor in the infamous “Dr. Death” case — the criminal trial that sent neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch to prison for life.\nMichelle pulls back the curtain on how a case unlike anything the Dallas DA’s office had ever seen became a historic prosecution.\nIn this episode, you’ll hear:\n1. Michelle’s path to the Dr. Death caseFrom handling everyday felonies and white-collar crimes to taking on a serially harmful surgeon with a trail of devastated patients.2. Why this was truly a criminal caseHow the team dug through medical records, patient stories, and surgeon testimony to prove that what happened in the OR was far beyond “complications.”3. Inside the mind of Dr. DeathThe chilling “stone cold killer” emailWildly abnormal surgical “complications” that “just don’t happen”A surgeon who didn’t know what structure he was operating on — and still thought he was doing a great jobHow narcissism, possible sociopathy, and drugs collided in the worst way 4. The victims and the numbersHow subpoenas revealed that almost every patient he touched was harmed — and why it’s a miracle he was stopped before building an even bigger practice.5. The hospital records you never seeHow Michelle used criminal subpoenas to access peer review files and internal documents that called his work “terrible” and “inexcusable.”6. The defense strategyWhy no doctor took the stand to defend his care, and how the defense tried to shift blame to hospitals and training programs instead.7. The turning point in courtHow Dr. Randall Kirby and Dr. Robert Henderson raised the alarm — and how Dr. Mark Lazar’s testimony finally forced Dr. Death to confront what he’d done.8. Where the story goes from hereWhy Michelle, Kay, and the rest of the team still work together to push for systemic change so...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ACUAWAuskVZB96h477ijBkGBeQ9EEPkCx3DKXf9k02I/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZTc2/ZDE3MDBjM2IwMDhm/M2YwOTc0Mjk2OTZk/MDc3My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}