NEWS 8 INVESTIGATES PLANO A top North Texas hospital is accused of letting a dangerous surgeon operate on patients, causing their paralysis... and even death. The allegations are laid out in federal lawsuits against Baylor Plano by two patients who say the surgeon should never have been given credentials. NEWS 8 INVESTIGATES PLANO A top North Texas hospital is accused of letting a dangerous surgeon operate on patients, causing their paralysis... and even death. The allegations are laid out in federal lawsuits against Baylor Plano by two patients who say the surgeon should never have been given credentials. But no one stopped him from operating on his own roommate and best friend Jerry Summers, who could walk the day before the operation at Baylor. The day after his surgery, he was a quadriplegic. 'It was supposed to be a pretty common surgery, and I was supposed to walk in one day and walk out the next,' Summers said. According to Fennell's suit, Summers admitted to nursing staff that he had witnessed Duntsch using drugs the night before surgery. The lawsuit alleges an attorney representing Summers called Baylor Plano and 'reported the allegations concerning Dr. Duntsch's drug use.' Duntsch's privileges were suspended, but only for a few weeks. The suit alleges on his second day back from suspension at Baylor Plano, hospital officials let him operate on Kelly Martin of Garland. Duntsch allegedly botched her surgery. She died from massive blood loss. 'They should have stripped him of his hospital privileges,' Van Wey said. 'They should have reported him to the Texas Medical Board. They should have reported him to the National Practitioner Data Bank.' Instead, after leaving Baylor Plano, Duntsch received temporary privileges to operate at Dallas Medical Center. The suit alleges 'Baylor Plano sent a letter of recommendation for Duntsch to Dallas Medical Center stating there were no adverse events or adverse issues associated with Duntsch.' 'I had no negative reviews or disciplinary actions,' Duntsch told News 8 during a phone conversation last summer. 'They wrote me a letter saying that I was in good standing the whole time. There was never any discipline, and I was never, ever reviewed.' A Baylor spokesperson told News 8 last year it did not file any formal complaints about Duntsch. 'Generally speaking, since we did not file any complaints against him, he would have been in good standing when he resigned,' said Baylor spokesperson Jennifer McDowell. In a response filed in the Passmore suit, Baylor denies giving Duntsch a letter of recommendation, and

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