Dr. Death

Peacock’s Dr. Death, which I guess one could call the Jaws of spinal surgery, is a miniseries designed to make you terrified to check in to the hospital — which ultimately feels less transformative because people, as a rule, don’t enjoy checking in to the hospital.Instead of reshaping audience perceptions in any meaningful way, Dr. Death is an eight-hour affirmation of every fear and insecurity that you have about surgery and, as such, is more like shooting fish in a barrel than shooting a pressurized SCUBA tank in a toothy fish’s mouth. Perhaps that’s why either familiarity or fatigue set in after around five episodes of Dr. Death, which probably should have been capped at that length anyway. It’s still generally watchable and largely persuasive in its paranoia-enhancing depiction of the medical-industrial complex, playing like the best season yet of NBCUniversal’s Dirty John franchise, even if nobody chose to apply that banner here.Dr. Death Season 1 Download.

Adapted by Patrick Macmanus and a team of scribes from the Wondery podcast, Dr. Death focuses on Christopher Duntsch (Joshua Jackson), a Dallas-based neurosurgeon who was accused of killing multiple patients and leaving dozens more injured in a not-brief-enough reign of either terror, ineptitude or some combination of the two. How was Duntsch able to keep getting patients, keep getting operating privileges, and keep getting professional references and accolades after this string of medical misadventures? Was this former researcher, who boasted both a PhD and an MD, as brilliant as some of his colleagues claimed — and if he was truly that brilliant, does that mean he was evil?Plotting to bring Duntsch down are fellow surgeons Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin) and Randall Kirby (Christian Slater), as well as Dallas-area assistant district attorney Michelle Shughart (AnnaSophia Robb).