A new true crime doc is coming to Netflix

The horror stories are far from over, as there are enough bizarre, macabre, and unpleasant things happening all over the world. And Netflix knows how to handle that, as the true crime documentaries keep being released online without interruption. By the way, you won't hear me complaining about that, although my trust in humanity is diminishing. Especially since the most intense and sickening stories are often events I had never heard of before. One example of this is Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife, which will be released on Netflix this year.

This documentary is about Paolo Macchiarini, a Swedish-Italian doctor who in 2011 (very recent, indeed) came out with a groundbreaking discovery: a synthetic trachea. In that same year, he placed the very first one at the Karolinska University Hospital, a hospital in Sweden. This synthetic trachea was supposed to be the solution for patients who had been waiting for a donor for a long time.

This trachea was placed in the body of Andemariam Beyene, a student from Eritrea — she died two and a half years later from multiple infections. After her death, it turned out that the trachea had come loose... The horror. Two other patients who also received a synthetic trachea at the same hospital did not survive much longer either. Do you see a pattern here?

In the end, only one patient survived this operation and its aftermath. This obviously did not go unnoticed, and Macchiarini was arrested and convicted. That was only after it became clear that he had not been entirely honest about his CV and because employers for the Karolinska University Hospital had been anything but positive about him.

Here, Netflix obviously saw a story for their documentary, which will be available online this year. Unfortunately, there is (yet) no trailer, but I bet this will be another astonishing story.