Christopher Daniel Duntsch is a former neurosurgeon who has been nicknamed Dr. Death for gross neurosurgical malpractice while working at hospitals in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. He was accused of injuring 33 out of 38 patients in less than two years, causing 31 maimed patients and causing 2 deaths. In 2017 he was convicted of maiming one of his patients and sentenced to life imprisonment.