Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon
2016•1 Seasons•3 Episodes•10.0•Ended
Documentary
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.
Creator
Bosse Lindquist
Network
SVT1
Origin
SE
Cast
Bosse Lindquist
Self - Speakerröst
Dr. Paolo Macchiarini
Self
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
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