‘I fell in love with a superstar surgeon who turned out to be a conman’
Alexander believes Macchiarini’s lies gave him a thrill/ Paolo Macchiarini could have been plucked from the pages of a Mills & Boon novel. The handsome Italian thoracic surgeon speaks six languages and a decade ago gained global attention for his pioneering use of plastic windpipes. His ultimate aim was almost godlike: ending the need for human organ donation. The world was charmed. Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet – home of the Nobel Prize for Medicine – gave him surgical teams and access to funding, sick patients sought him out and ...
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