Experimental surgery can sometimes save your life but can also be fatal - a risk we are willing to take if there is no way out.
But what if it's unnecessary?
What if there are other treatment options?
What if your doctor is using you as an illegal test subject?
Meet Paolo Macchiarini - a surgeon that rose to fame installing tracheas to dying patients.
Now meet the real Paolo - the man skipping experimentation steps, a liar, and a fraud.
Follow his journey from fame at the Karolinska Institute as a documentary superstar to his disgrace as he is barred from practice in several countries as he leaves a wake of complications and death in his patients.