Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon

201610.0

Documentary

Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon

201610.0

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.

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Cast

Bosse Lindquist
Self - Speakerröst
Dr. Paolo Macchiarini
Self (archive footage)
Johannes Hallbom
Self - Reporter
Anna Nordbeck
Anna Nordbeck
Self - Reporter
Johannes Wahlström
Johannes Wahlström
Self - Reporter
Beyene Andemariam
Self
Julia Tuulik
Julia Tuulik
Self
Andrej Vasiljev
Andrej Vasiljev
Self - Julias make
Natalia Tuulik
Natalia Tuulik
Self - Julias mamma
Karl-Henrik Grinnemo
Karl-Henrik Grinnemo
Self - Professor vid Institutionen för kirurgiska vetenskaper; Thoraxkirurgi
Matthias Corbascio
Matthias Corbascio
Self - Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset: Institutionen för molekylär medicin och kirurgi
Igor Polyakov
Igor Polyakov
Self - Vice chefsläkare på Krasnodar Regional Hospital
Urban Lendahl
Urban Lendahl
Self - Professor i genetik på Karolinska Institutet