Doctor Death
What's on TV|November 25, 2023
Transplant pioneer Dr Paolo Macchiarini was a con man whose patients died in agony...
NATASHA HOLT, IAN MACEWAN
Doctor Death

Nicknamed 'the super surgeon', charismatic thoracic surgeon Dr Paolo Macchiarini was lauded as the man who had revolutionised transplant surgery.

In 2011, he came up with a groundbreaking operation to replace the windpipes of desperate patients with plastic alternatives bathed in their own stem cells.

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