The latest Wondery podcast to transition to the small screen is
Dr. Death, based on the first season of journalist Laura Beil’s series on deadly doctors and the systems that enable them. Like
Dirty John on sister network Bravo, it looks like Peacock’s
Dr. Death kicks the melodrama up a few or 20 notches, as evidenced by this very
dramatic trailer:
To be fair, Joshua Jackson seems to be giving the sort of on-the-nose performance you’d expect from a series called pause for impact
DR. DEATH. Co-starring Alec Baldwin, Kelsey Grammer (yeah it’s that kind of party), Christian Slater (whose previous role in
Black National Crisis Committee to ask Parly to have Basson banned as doctor The man nicknamed Dr Death led the apartheid government s establishment of a chemical and biological warfare programme against black people. FILE: Wouter Basson. Picture: mediclinic.co.za
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JOHANNESBURG - The Black National Crisis Committee will be writing to Parliament to have Wouter Basson banned from practising as a doctor.
The man nicknamed Dr Death led the apartheid government s establishment of a chemical and biological warfare programme against black people.
The committee said it was shocked to see his name published among staff members and doctors on Mediclinic’s website.
the production of deadly drugs and other substances to be used against “enemies” of the apartheid state;
providing substances to tranquilise victims of cross-border kidnapping; and
providing cyanide-filled suicide capsules for members of special units.
In 1998, Basson appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to testify about Project Coast. The scientists allegedly researched ways to poison anti-apartheid leaders, sterilise black South Africans and contaminate the water supply with cholera.
News that Basson was working at Mediclinic sent many social media users into a frenzy.
However, Mediclinic said: “By law, doctors are independent practitioners and cannot be employed by Mediclinic Southern Africa. We cannot prohibit HPCSA-registered doctors, including Dr Basson, from practising unless they are prevented by law from doing so.”
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