Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon

Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon

10.0 Rating2016-01-13Documentary

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.

Episodes

Cast

Bosse Lindquist

Bosse Lindquist

as Self - Speakerröst

Dr. Paolo Macchiarini

Dr. Paolo Macchiarini

as Self (archive footage)

Johannes Hallbom

Johannes Hallbom

as Self - Reporter

Anna Nordbeck

Anna Nordbeck

as Self - Reporter

Johannes Wahlström

Johannes Wahlström

as Self - Reporter

Beyene Andemariam

Beyene Andemariam

as Self

Julia Tuulik

Julia Tuulik

as Self

Andrej Vasiljev

Andrej Vasiljev

as Self - Julias make

Natalia Tuulik

Natalia Tuulik

as Self - Julias mamma

Karl-Henrik Grinnemo

Karl-Henrik Grinnemo

as Self - Professor vid Institutionen för kirurgiska vetenskaper; Thoraxkirurgi