Doctor Death

Transplant pioneer Dr Paolo Macchiarini was a con man whose patients died in agony...

- NATASHA HOLT, IAN MACEWAN

Nicknamed 'the super surgeon', charismatic thoracic surgeon Dr Paolo Macchiarini was lauded as the man who had revolutionised transplant surgery.

In 2011, he came up with a groundbreaking operation to replace the windpipes of desperate patients with plastic alternatives bathed in their own stem cells.