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Dr. Death Cutthroat Conman Documentary movie trailer HD - Dr. Death: Cutthroat Conman is streaming Dec 21 on Peacock

Synopsis: Dr. Death: Cutthroat Conman reveals the shocking rise and fall of Paolo Macchiarini, the superstar celebrity surgeon who ascended to global fame after performing the world’s first synthetic organ transplant, only to be exposed as an international con man whose web of lies extends decades, ensnared many including those in his personal life and left a trail of devastated patients grappling with a nightmare.
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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
00:09 with their windpipe.
00:10 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.
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00:31 The 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 recruited
01:00 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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