Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon

Overview

The series investigates Paolo Macchiarini’s claims to have invented a ground-breaking method to create new organs. His method using plastic tracheas sown with stemcells has been operated on patients in the US, Russia, Sweden and the UK. So far, unfortunately, the track record of his plastic organs is not very good. Almost all patients are dead. And several of his former surgeon colleagues in Sweden claim that not only does the method not work, but that his scientific claim to fame is based on falsified and misrepresented data. Some even claim that his patients have been used as human guinea-pigs.

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Cast

Bosse Lindquist

Self - Speakerröst

Dr. Paolo Macchiarini

Self (archive footage)

Johannes Hallbom

Self - Reporter

Anna Nordbeck

Self - Reporter

Johannes Wahlström

Self - Reporter

Beyene Andemariam

Self

Julia Tuulik

Self

Andrej Vasiljev

Self - Julias make

Natalia Tuulik

Self - Julias mamma

Karl-Henrik Grinnemo

Self - Professor vid Institutionen för kirurgiska vetenskaper; Thoraxkirurgi

Matthias Corbascio

Self - Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset: Institutionen för molekylär medicin och kirurgi

Igor Polyakov

Self - Vice chefsläkare på Krasnodar Regional Hospital

Urban Lendahl

Self - Professor i genetik på Karolinska Institutet