

Henderson that she never wants Duntsch to come near her again. Fortunately, Madeline’s pain improves after the revision, but she can’t seem to move her left foot, and she tells Dr. But Duntsch’s procedure leaves Madeline with even worse back pain and limited mobility, and a neurosurgeon named Robert Henderson ( 30 Rock‘s Alec Baldwin) must now complete a revision surgery to fix Duntsch’s mistakes. One of Duntsch’s surgical patients during his first few weeks in Dallas is Madeline Beyer, who goes to Duntsch for a spinal fusion surgery. “Hard to be the future at a place with no vision,” Duntsch tells a patient at one point, which accurately sums up the ego we see from him throughout the premiere. Five years earlier, though, Duntsch had just been hired at Dallas Medical Center in Texas, following a stint in Plano that Duntsch later says he left because the staff was underperforming, and he felt “boxed in” at that facility.
