Dr. Death is a podcast produced by Wondery that focuses on egregious cases of medical malpractice.

He pled guilty to charges of healthcare fraud, money laundering, and conspiring to pay and receive kickbacks.

Season 3 focuses on Paolo Macchiarini, a Swiss-born Italian thoracic surgeon and regenerative medicine researcher who became known for research fraud and unethical experiments in synthetic tracheas that led to the deaths of several patients, as well as the experience of his former fiancé Benita Alexander, who reveals Macchiarini's extensive fraud in their relationship in a series of interviews.

Wondery promoted the podcast by renting ad space on a billboard directly across the street from Baylor Plano where Dr. Death subject Christopher Duntsch had worked.

[10] On October 3, 2018, it was announced that Universal Cable Productions had put the TV series into development.