El Paso, Texas, January 20, 2025: The death of medical student Vaibhav Duggal, who died by suicide in July 2025, has resurfaced in public discourse after his family released a detailed video alleging serious failures in how Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC) handled a complaint against him.
Duggal was a third-year medical student at TTUHSC’s School of Medicine. According to his family, he was an academically accomplished student — a summa cum laude graduate of Texas A&M University with a 4.0 GPA — and was deeply committed to becoming a physician.
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