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Storyville: Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon

Bosse Lindquist

Storyville: Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon: Episode 3: Part 3

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Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon

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Doctors question Macchiarini's transplantation of plastic tracheas and raise the alarm.

Series investigating surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. By 2014, four Karolinska doctors started to question Macchiarini's transplantation of plastic tracheas and raised the alarm.

Paolo Macchiarini, star surgeon at Sweden's prestigious Karolinska Institute, home to the Nobel Prize, seemed to be on the verge of solving one of medicine's biggest riddles - how to create artificial organs. But the final episode of this absorbing investigative series uncovers that something was seriously wrong. 

By 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. 

Investigative journalist Bosse Lindquist confronts Macchiarini and the vice-chancellor of Karolinska Institute, to uncover why Macchiarini was able to continue.

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Series looking at the downfall of synthetic organ transplants surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.

Three-part series looking at the downfall of synthetic organ transplants surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.

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