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Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon

Series2016Limited seriesEnded

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Creator
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Language
Swedish
Episodes
3
Episode length
60m

Community score

10.03 votes on TMDB

Confidence

Rating weighted by how many people voted

6.4

The story

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.

Cast

  • Bosse Lindquist
    Bosse LindquistSelf - Speakerröst
  • Dr. Paolo Macchiarini
    Dr. Paolo MacchiariniSelf
  • Johannes Hallbom
    Johannes HallbomSelf - Reporter
  • Anna Nordbeck — artwork unavailable
    Anna NordbeckSelf - Reporter
  • Johannes Wahlström — artwork unavailable
    Johannes WahlströmSelf - Reporter
  • Beyene Andemariam
    Beyene AndemariamSelf
  • Julia Tuulik — artwork unavailable
    Julia TuulikSelf
  • Andrej Vasiljev — artwork unavailable
    Andrej VasiljevSelf - Julias make
  • Natalia Tuulik — artwork unavailable
    Natalia TuulikSelf - Julias mamma
  • Karl-Henrik Grinnemo — artwork unavailable
    Karl-Henrik GrinnemoSelf - Professor vid Institutionen för kirurgiska vetenskaper; Thoraxkirurgi