Series
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon
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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Seasons & episodes
1Part 113 Jan 2016 · 58m · ★ 10.0Paolo Macchiarini is one of world's most famous surgeons. He hopes to revolutionize medicine by creating a new type of synthetic organ - a vision that could save many lives. But the Italian surgeon has also been accused of using terminally ill patients as human guinea pigs as well as falsifying his science. Is he a genius - or is he behind one of medicine's biggest scandals?
2Part 220 Jan 2016 · 58m · ★ 10.0In the summer of 2012, supersurgeon Macchiarini is under pressure when problems start to arise. His pioneering transplant work seems at risk when he discovers faults with the new synthetic organs. Macchiarini still has faith in the procedure and plans new operations. This time it will no longer be fatally ill patients on whom he tries out his new methods, but patients whose condition is not life-threatening. Will Macchiarini succeed with his pioneering work?
3Part 327 Jan 2016 · 59m · ★ 10.0By 2014, four Karolinska doctors started to question Macchiarini's transplantation of plastic tracheas and raised the alarm at Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institute. They suspected that Macchiarini had been lying in his scientific papers and that patients' lives were being put at risk by a technique which had not been properly tested or investigated beforehand. But still his employer, the Karolinska Institute, defended him and claimed nothing was amiss.
Details
- Created by
- Bosse Lindquist
- First aired
- 13 Jan 2016
- Last aired
- 27 Jan 2016
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- Swedish
- Network
- SVT1
- Episodes
- 3
- Votes
- 3 on TMDB
Cast
Bosse LindquistSelf - Speakerröst
Dr. Paolo MacchiariniSelf
Johannes HallbomSelf - Reporter- AAnna NordbeckSelf - Reporter
- JJohannes WahlströmSelf - Reporter
Beyene AndemariamSelf- JJulia TuulikSelf
- AAndrej VasiljevSelf - Julias make
- NNatalia TuulikSelf - Julias mamma
- KKarl-Henrik GrinnemoSelf - Professor vid Institutionen för kirurgiska vetenskaper; Thoraxkirurgi
- MMatthias CorbascioSelf - Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset: Institutionen för molekylär medicin och kirurgi
- IIgor PolyakovSelf - Vice chefsläkare på Krasnodar Regional Hospital
- UUrban LendahlSelf - Professor i genetik på Karolinska Institutet
