Peacock’s Dr. Death and Why My Distrust of Doctors Feels Vindicated

Rosalyn Morris
4 min readJul 26, 2021

I just finished binge-watching Peacock’s Dr. Death starring Joshua Jackson, Christian Slater, and Alec Baldwin. No spoilers, but it tells the story of real life Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a neurosurgeon, who botched the surgeries of over 30 patients. While watching the series, something that stuck out to me the most was the hesitancy that some of Dr. Duntsch’s patients, or…

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