Podcast season 2 · True Crime
Dr Death S2
Dr Death · Wondery
A focused medical-fraud investigation that foregrounds patient vulnerability and the people who challenged a trusted cancer specialist.
LR score 89 · 1 published rating
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- Work
- Self-contained season 2
- Release
- Complete
- Episodes
- 6 verified main-run episodes
- Count scope
- This is a verified main-run count, not an all-published feed total; bonus, update, trailer, and epilogue items may be excluded.
- Facts reviewed
- July 21, 2026
- Editorial review
- July 22, 2026
Listening Record verdict
Why we recommend it
By centering the practice around Farid Fata, the harm to cancer patients, and the efforts to expose him, the season shows how trust and professional authority can be weaponized inside healthcare.
Best for: Listeners interested in healthcare fraud, challenges to professional authority, and accountability for abuse of trust.
Not for: Listeners for whom cancer, medical abuse, or patient death would be too distressing.
Strengths
- Keeps patient vulnerability at the center of the fraud story.
- Shows why challenging professional authority can be difficult and consequential.
Caveats
- The combination of cancer and deliberate medical harm makes the material unusually upsetting.
Sensitivity guidance: Contains discussion of cancer, medical abuse, fraud, and death.
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