The Netflix poster is growing in ratings with new and shocking audiovisual production that gallops along with horrors like that of Jeffrey Dahmer. is about “The great surgeon of deception”, a miniseries that tells about a real case in three chapters Paolo Macchiarinione of the biggest scandals of modern medicine.

Delivery, unlike others in this style, is produced in a documentary format. In this way, he manages to collect images and testimonies that summarize Macchiarini’s journey from his first experiments with synthetic organ transplantation to the moment when he was identified as responsible for the death of at least 7 patients, reports El Comercio.

Netflix: The True Story of “Surgeon of Deception”

The trailer for Netflix’s “The Great Surgeon of Deception” shows how Paolo Macchiarini developed alleged synthetic windpipes useful for transplanting to patients in need. Although they did not have sufficient reliability to be tested on patients, a thoracic surgeon at the time used it on nine patients.

In the trailer, you can hear some comments like, “He treated people like lab rats,” “It’s the biggest scam in medicine,” and “This guy could be a fraud, but he could also be a genius.”

As the aforementioned portal reports, what really happened is that five years after the alleged discovery, seven out of nine patients died. Those who survived had to replace the plastic tubes they were given with transplanted human tracheas.

One of Macchiarini’s arguments was: “the first liver transplant, the first kidney transplant, the first heart transplant, did they go well? Not. I believe that this is the future and that everything will be better with the next patients.”

It was never possible to prove that Paolo Macchiarini actually caused the death. However, after the event, he was convicted in 2019 of abuse of authority and falsification of documents.

Likewise, in 2022 he was charged with causing bodily harm to his patients, and in 2023 his sentence was extended for aggravated assault on three of them. The sentence was increased to a total of two and a half years. (AND)