Dr. Paolo Macchiarini
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 22, 1958
Place of Birth: Basel, Switzerland
Known For
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.
Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife
Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is world famous for his revolutionary stem cell-infused windpipe transplants. There's just one problem: His patients keep dying.
He Lied About Everything
An astonishing true story of love, betrayal, and deception. When a magical romance with a world-renowned surgeon develops into a nightmare, his fiancé uncovers a path of destruction that leaves dead patients and shattered families in its wake.
Dr. Death: Cutthroat Conman
Revealing the shocking rise and fall of Paolo Macchiarini, the superstar celebrity surgeon who ascended to global fame after performing the world's first synthetic organ transplant, only to be exposed as an international con man whose web of lies extends decades, ensnared many including those in his personal life and left a trail of devastated patients grappling with a nightmare.
He Lied About Everything: Inside the Story
The true tale of the love affair between award-winning investigative producer Benita Alexander and world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. What started as dream relationship developed into a nightmare filled with lies and deceit.
Filmography
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