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Most protagonists on medical dramas are modern-day heroes. And then there are the surgeons on Dr. Death<\/a><\/em>. The first season of each the Peacock<\/a> sequence and the Wondery podcast of the identical identify instructed the story of Christopher Duntsch<\/a>, a former neurosurgeon now serving a life sentence for botched surgical procedures that left greater than 30 sufferers maimed or lifeless. And the TV present\u2019s second season, announced earlier this month<\/a>, will cowl the podcast\u2019s third, with Edgar Ramirez<\/a> taking part in Paolo Macchiarini, and This Is Us<\/em><\/a> star Mandy Moore<\/a> taking part in Benita Alexander<\/a>, an investigative journalist who falls right into a whirlwind romance with the physician.<\/p>\n According to The New York Times<\/a><\/em>, Macchiarini is an Italian surgeon who was discovered criminally liable this June for inflicting felony bodily damage to a Turkish girl named Yesim Cetir, a affected person who had obtained considered one of his 3D-printed windpipes and later died. Macchiarini was additionally charged with however acquitted of assault costs associated to the deaths of two extra of his synthetic windpipe sufferers, an Eritrean man named Andemariam Beyene and an American man named Christopher Lyles, in keeping with BBC News<\/a><\/em>. Macchiarini, who denied the fees in opposition to him, wasn\u2019t immediately accused of killing any of the three sufferers.<\/p>\n More than a decade in the past, Macchiarini turned a celebrity within the discipline of drugs when he implanted the world\u2019s first \u201cbioartificial\u201d windpipe, a plastic construction that used the affected person\u2019s stem cells to cut back the chance of organ rejection. At the time, Macchiarini was working at Sweden\u2019s Karolinska Institute, which awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine yearly.<\/p>\n But colleagues suspected that Macchiarini was manipulating his outcomes. According to the Times<\/em>, Macchiarini \u2014 seen beneath in a 2017 interview on Sweden\u2019s TV4 Nyheterna \u2014 carried out 20 tracheal regeneration procedures throughout Europe and within the United States however hid the truth that the transplants have been failing.<\/p>\n