2023-06-28 20:00:56
The documentary titled Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife from Netflix will examine the personal and professional life of this peculiar surgeon.
To this day, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is remembered for having carried out the first transplant of a synthetic organ in the history of Medicine.
His method was questioned because some time later it was shown that seven out of nine patients to whom he repeated the operation died.
The life of health professionals is often portrayed in various ways. Sometimes fiction is abused in medical series because their stories do not match reality. But there are also cases in which a life is the reason for a documentary and the best example is one of Netflix’s upcoming works.
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In the first instance, with the rise of streaming platforms, the phenomenon known as “marathoning” has emerged. It consists of watching all the episodes of a series for several hours. For that to happen, an attractive story is needed that captures the attention of the viewers.
In this vein, the Los Gatos, California-based platform remains the world leader despite the setbacks it has experienced in recent months. Although it has lost followers, it currently has 221 million subscribers, a figure that exceeds the total population of most countries in the world.
In his case, one of the characteristics of this company is the constant creation of original content. It stands out for its films, series and documentaries, which often become pop culture phenomena.
Netflix prepares a documentary about a peculiar surgeon
According to the medium Deadlinethe streaming platform has a documentary series on Paolo Macchiarini. The Italian is a surgeon who is remembered for having performed the first transplant of a synthetic organ in the history of medicine. It happened in 2011 and it was the plastic trachea inserted in a patient.
At that time, his method was considered revolutionary because it could be the beginning of a new way of performing surgeries and transplants. In fact, it was thought that thanks to his work, the waiting lists to find compatible donors would end. Although soon everything fell apart due to all the irregularities detected.
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It was in 2014 when several doctors from the Instituto Karolinska His methods were called into question. They also denounced him for underestimating the risks of the operations and for not having obtained the informed consent of the patients.
While four doctors affiliated with said institution found discrepancies between one of the articles where he exposes the results of his investigations, with the medical histories of the patients.
After a long investigation, in 2016 Dr. Paolo Macchiarini was found guilty of having caused the death of seven out of nine patients. He subjected all of them to his treatment of placement of a synthetic trachea.
Last victim of #PaoloMacchiarini‘s human trachea experiments has died. #bioethics #researchethics
— Christian Munthe (@christianmunthe) March 20, 2017
From the above, the doctor went from fame and recognition to being listed as the worst surgeon in the world In addition, several of the Academies to which he belonged decided to expel him for his lack of ethics.
For now, Netflix released the documentary titled Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife will examine the personal and professional life of Macchiarini. There is still no official date for its premiere, although it is expected to occur before the end of 2023.
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