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Dr. Death
Wondery
4.7 • 90.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The doctors who sounded the alarm become the target of an investigation themselves. And a fearless filmmaker finds that the answers lie with the patients.
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| 0:00.0 | a listener note. This episode contains adult content and language. This may not be suitable for all listeners. |
| 0:11.8 | In the early part of 2015, while Benita Alexander was being swept off her feet, |
| 0:17.6 | another journalist was starting to pay attention to the macchiarini story. |
| 0:22.4 | My boss suggested I read this allegation about a certain surgeon at the major university hospital |
| 0:31.6 | in Sweden. Busa Linkvist had been a prominent journalist in Sweden for decades. He's |
| 0:37.2 | balding with gray stubble and light blue eyes. He fits the image of a relentless journalist from a |
| 0:43.2 | Scandinavian noir thriller. Busa read the complaint his boss gave him about how Paulo allegedly |
| 0:50.0 | engaged in scientific misconduct. The details of the allegations were hard to follow. |
| 0:55.6 | So it's 60 pages. I don't understand the terminology. It's a waste of time. |
| 1:01.3 | Once he finally made sense of what the whistleblowers were alleging, he was skeptical. |
| 1:06.4 | It seemed unlikely to him that something this egregious could have happened at a prestigious |
| 1:11.7 | institution like Carolinska. Still, he was curious. Why would four doctors risk their careers? |
| 1:19.7 | If it wasn't true. So I thought, well, I mean, someone is in the wrong here clearly, |
| 1:26.6 | so but I don't know who it is. Busa called up Paulo and they arranged to meet at |
| 1:31.8 | Paulo's lab for an interview. Paulo welcomed him in. It was a narrow room with shelves filled |
| 1:37.8 | with beakers and flasks with rat organs suspended inside. Paulo was characteristically soft-spoken |
| 1:45.0 | and focused in his demeanor. Yet at the same time, there was something almost flashy about him. |
| 1:51.0 | He had this rock star quality. There was a sort of, there was an aura of being global world and being |
| 1:59.6 | on the verge of a major breakthrough. Paulo started out the conversation by laying out ground rules. |
| 2:06.0 | Paulo immediately made it very clear that he was not going to say anything about his personal life. |
| 2:11.5 | Nothing about his upbringing, nothing about his school, nothing about his parents, nothing about |
| 2:15.4 | his love life, or that was outside of what we would do together. At first, I thought, this is |
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