Another great true crime series from Netflix, people. This one is really good. It’s about a world-famous surgeon working in Sweden, at the most expensive hospital in the world, and doing groundbreaking work in stem cell research.
There was endless news coverage about this amazing doctor. Articles, interviews, documentaries.
But it was all a hoax.
The surgeon was a psychopathic butcher.
He was allowed to cut people – normally, very young ones – into strips because everybody was so in awe of the phrase “stem cell” that nobody checked what he was doing.
This story really has everything. People going in for highly experimental surgeries that they don’t really need and dying as a result.
The insanity of socialized medicine in Sweden.
A hypocritical liberal lady journalist from New York.
A bureaucratic machine that creates a breeding ground for psychopathy.
There’s even the stupidity of Putin’s Russia there.
I’m watching the series and I’m thinking, “Gosh, these people, this medical establishment, they can’t be bothered to notice when a conman butchers a sweet toddler to death under the guise of groundbreaking science, and we let them lock us up and inject us with some weird concoction because they are supposed to know best.”
Yes, it’s a bit of a monomania with me. But a great documentary.
Netflix disgraced itself with Making a Murderer but it’s more than made up for it with these less famous docuseries. They are so good that I watched two about American football stars involved in crime, and I now even kind of understand the sport.