Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife is a three-part documentary series on Netflix that follows the rise and spectacular fall of Dr Paolo Macchiarini, who swept to fame with his revolutionary alternative to organ transplants.
In 2011 Macchiarini was feted all over the world when he came up with ground-breaking surgery that replaced the windpipes of desperately ill patients with plastic alternatives bathed in their own stem cells. He performed the surgery in numerous countries, and it seemed that it would change organ donation forever as it proved that synthetic organs could be used.
