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A documentary revealing the shocking rise and fall of Paolo Macchiarini, the superstar celebrity surgeon who ascended to | dG1fSVFzeWVsanJTa3M

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00:00 Macarini was a superstar surgeon.

00:02 He's this good-looking man of mystery,

00:04 a miracle worker.

00:05 His technique was groundbreaking.

00:07 The artificial trachea for people who had problems

00:10 with their windpipe.

00:11 But the problem is, Paolo's surgeries are failing.

00:16 Paolo was selling a miracle.

00:18 People want to believe in a miracle.

00:21 But something is off.

00:23 He was just so desperate to show this idea could work.

00:28 And that had deadly consequences.

00:30 Patient is developing all sorts of complications.

00:34 Paolo's synthetic trachea clogs up.

00:36 The feeling that you're about to suffocate all the time.

00:41 It was medical torture.

00:44 He lied consistently throughout his career

00:46 about his credentials.

00:48 Paolo was fooling everybody, professionally and personally.

00:52 Macarini lied about the success of the patients.

00:55 While Paolo's patients were dying,

00:58 there were patients being actively

00:59 recruited and operated on.

01:01 He had to be stopped.

01:03 For me, the question has always been,

01:06 how did he get away with it for as long as he did?

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