Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife (Season 1)

Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife (2023) is a true-crime documentary series you can watch online on iFILM. Across three episodes it traces Paolo Macchiarini, the Italian thoracic surgeon hailed as a miracle worker for implanting artificial windpipes grown from stem cells.

The headlines promised a medical revolution. Then his patients started dying, one after another. A second thread follows journalist Benita Alexander, who came to profile Macchiarini, fell for him, and nearly married a man whose promises turned out to be inventions. The deeper the reporting digs, the clearer it gets: a celebrated career built on falsified records and operations that should never have happened.

Whistleblowing colleagues and Benita herself tell it firsthand, with no cheap reenactments propping up the story. It is a sharp look at how charm and prestigious publications can shield a deadly fraud for years. Stream Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife online on iFILM.