Dr. Death: Cutthroat Conman
Dec 21, 2023 | IMDB 5.9
84 min Watch NowDocumentary, Crime
Revealing 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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