Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon

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.

• Bosse LindquistSelf - Speakerröst
• Dr. Paolo MacchiariniSelf (archive footage)
• Johannes HallbomSelf - Reporter
• Anna NordbeckSelf - Reporter
• Johannes WahlströmSelf - Reporter
• Beyene AndemariamSelf
• Julia TuulikSelf
• Andrej VasiljevSelf - Julias make
• Natalia TuulikSelf - Julias mamma
• Karl-Henrik GrinnemoSelf - Professor vid Institutionen för kirurgiska vetenskaper; Thoraxkirurgi
• Matthias CorbascioSelf - Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset: Institutionen för molekylär medicin och kirurgi
• Igor PolyakovSelf - Vice chefsläkare på Krasnodar Regional Hospital