Built on one of the most alarming true medical cases of the last decade, this series follows how a surgeon kept operating long after the warning signs became impossible to ignore.
What is Dr. Death about?
Christopher Duntsch arrives in Dallas as a neurosurgeon with an impressive résumé and, on paper, nothing to raise concern. Then his patients start coming out of routine spine surgeries permanently injured, and in some cases, not surviving the procedure at all. Hospitals reassign him, colleagues quietly warn each other, yet the system built to catch a problem like this keeps failing to stop him, letting him move from operating room to operating room while the toll keeps climbing. Two physicians who cross paths with the fallout eventually decide the informal warnings aren't working and set out to build a case that can actually shut him down, navigating hospital bureaucracy and a medical licensing system that resists moving quickly even when the evidence is stacking up. The series follows both sides of that story at once: the mounting damage inside the operating room, and the frustrating, procedural fight to get anyone with authority to act on it.
About the cast
Joshua Jackson takes the title role, with Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater playing the physicians who push to stop him. Grace Gummer, AnnaSophia Robb, Molly Griggs, and Carrie Preston fill out the supporting cast around them.
Context & significance
Directed by Patrick Macmanus, the series works as a procedural as much as a character study, tracking the paperwork, licensing boards, and hospital politics that let a dangerous pattern continue for far longer than it should have. Genre-wise it sits across crime, drama, and thriller, with the tension coming less from any single violent moment than from the slow-motion horror of institutions moving too slowly. Each episode runs about 45 minutes, and the 2021 series keeps its focus tight on the medical and legal machinery rather than sensationalizing the injuries themselves.
Watching Dr. Death on Ktime
Dr. Death is available on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so the series plays comfortably in Farsi from the opening episode. The page is free to browse, and watching only requires logging into a K-Time account. K-Time's Farsi-first design makes a true-crime medical thriller like this one easy to find alongside the rest of the catalogue.