Henrik Widegren - The Ballad of the Superstar Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini - Live from the hospital
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This is a ballad about the superstar surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. And sadly, every word in this song is true.
Anna, thank you for reviewing my lyrics! And Chancellor of Justice, thank you for dropping Macchiarinis charges of slander. I agree.
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The Ballad of the Superstar Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini
Music/Lyrics: Henrik Widegren
Ladies and gentlemen
Please, let me sing
Let me tell a story,
So hideous and grim
It is just as crooked
As a tortellini
It is about the surgeon
Paolo Macchiarini
T’was in Stockholm, Sweden
Two thousand ten
A surgeon was recruited
By enterprising men
They celebrated with
Champagne and Martini:
”Hooray we got the superstar
Paolo Macchiarini!”
He wanted to facilitate
The patient’s respiration
With advanced medical
Regeneration
He thought outside the box
And anything goes
So he planted stem cells
On a garden hose
But some people were
Somewhat sceptical
What if the new trachea
Did not stick at all?
But noone likes
A naysaying genie
So they cheered and bowed
To Paolo Macchiarini
The next year in Stockholm
Opening night
The OR was packed
Everybody wanted a bite
But Paolo loved animals
Protocol, be cursed!
So he tried the operation
On humans first
In fancy papers he
Described his victory
And soon he operated
Patient two and three
But he forgot to mention
Something very odd
How the first patient was
Coughing up blood
Next in line was Julia
Not sickly at all
He told her that the risk
Was very, very small
She had a family and her hair
Was blond like linguine
She trusted the surgeon
Paolo Macchiarini
So Paolo kept busy
And patients in line
But the plastic airways
Weren’t doing fine
The tracheas are perfect
Reported Macchiarini
But the tracheas looked like
Rotting zucchini
One day four doctors
Finally awakened
And shouted out:
“The emperor is naked”
But the board said:
“How have you acquired
These medical records
We could have you fired”
But soon everybody
In this world could see
Plastic doesn’t work
But there was no plan B
Slowly the patients
Lost their breath
Their new, fantastic airways
Caused a slow death
At last Macchiarini
Together with the board
And the president
Were fired. Thank the Lord!
But they’ve got new jobs
Are safe and sound
While half a dozen patients
Lay in the ground
So why do I sing this?
Why do I bore ye?
Because we must never
Forget this story
A mixture of Bergman and Fellini
The ballad of the surgeon
Paolo Macchiarini
The superstar surgeon
Paolo Macchiarini
Chords:
EmEmDEm GDAmB7
EmDGB7 EmAmB7Em
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I'm so happy to have found your channel, much thanks to Medlife Crisis. What a chilling tale and well written song!
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for listening
@geekdivaherself
2 жыл бұрын
Me, too, just now!
@BPantherPink
2 жыл бұрын
Same here...came from Dr Rohin Francis' channel !
@LapsedSkeptic
Жыл бұрын
Ditto on Medlife Crisis leading me over. Definitely now subscribed.
@diyamanghnani665
Жыл бұрын
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Saw you at Medlife Crisis. This song is a serious one, but it's really bardic and beautiful!!
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@MegaTrivial
6 ай бұрын
@@henrikwidegren - This is a crying song...
@MegaTrivial
6 ай бұрын
@@henrikwidegren - a lamentation song
@henrikwidegren
6 ай бұрын
It is!@@MegaTrivial
This is why all doctors keep us waiting for 120 minutes
@lenitaa7938
5 ай бұрын
😂😂
Both of the versions of this song are great The original Swedish one has some brilliant wordplay that doesn’t work in English, but this one has its highlights too I, too, came from Medlife Crisis, but I think I’ll stick around. This song managed to both be humourous and treat the subject matter with the gravity it deserves
This is a really good summary of the whole disaster, tbh. I'm glad he's finally being tried in court, but honestly there's no prison time he can be sentenced to that will undo the immense harm he caused. Personally, I'd like to see consequences for the people whose negligence let him continue for as long as he did, as well...
@MsVesperado
2 жыл бұрын
The people whose negligence let him continue have all done a splendid job building a new and improved career. They don’t have time for this any longer. Move along, nothing to see here!
@FaerieDust
2 жыл бұрын
@@MsVesperado Yep. It sucks.
This is making me cry...! - Julia because she believed them and was not well informed - The first patient because he was reasonably scared and they pushed him - The child because was so little - and others who believed them, probably because of the publicity given in media
Just watched the Netflix doc and I'm 💯 flabbergasted that this 'super surgeon' was able to carry on his pipe hose trachea experiment and the board did nowt and moved on to new jobs! Such a sad one but love your version better than the documentary
@henrikwidegren
6 ай бұрын
It is sad, but thank you!
I just found you from the Medlife Crisis channel and I'm loving what you're doing. Subscribed!
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks and welcome
Surgical Blues with a Swedish accent rhyming Italian words... One can never tell what's going to turn out great, lol.
I never get tired of this song.
Jag mår jäkligt illa av att höra hans namn om jag ska vara ärlig.
Wow . I remember the case of one korean-canadian baby went to him for get a new air way transplant using stem cell. And she died after surgery. It filmed at that time. and most people who watched the movie about it feel deep sorrow about how her parents were wishes also how they were desperate Hena's normal life. Doc paulo should be shame. Thx for remind Sir. -greeting from korea
@lenitaa7938
5 ай бұрын
Yes, Dr Paolo did Not care about his own patients! He never did follow up, no matter how badly his patients suffered post-operation! Nor he ever kept tabs on his patients, even when the other Doctors reached out to him! He did not return their phone calls! It is these same Doctors that had to watch Dr Paolo M’s patients experience terrible, painful outcomes and deaths! He is likely a Psychopath! Yet, many said how charming, warm, mesmerizing he was when he spoke! He fooled many! Also, his previous colleagues did try to tell the Karolinska Institute in Sweden Not to hire him, that his research was suspect and untrustworthy, but they were ignored! It is hard to fathom how this Dr didn’t show empathy to even his very young patients! He has Children himself!
I think I've just found my favorite bard on the Internet.
This was a really beautiful yet sad piece of art. There are just too many evils in the world that goes unpunished. It makes me so angry. >:(
There's a "plastic surgeon" joke in here somewhere....
I’ve had you singing his fucking name in my mind on repeat ever since I saw this, but forgot what it came from. But not anymore, I have found the source of the great Paulo Macchiarini lyric! 10/10
"...... and unfortunately every word in this song is true." These words make me so sad because they are true! I am Italian and I didn't know this story. I knew it with your song, Dottor Henrik. As a ballad is a marvellous ballad. A very good ballad. And, this Italian Doctor, is....... I am not sure what he is. In Italy, quite everybody doesn't speak about him, because televisions, papers, and, finally, the "media" don't speak about this "story". After I listened about your song I did some research, an Internet research, I knew about him. It is quite impossible that most Italians doesn't know about this "fellow-countryman"; I'll pray for the victims and their relatives. And I hope their souls are in Heaven. ❤❤❤
Dude, I got goosebumps. This song hits haaaaaaaard.
I was searching for a list of cruel people and found this man Paolo. After seeing the documentaries and then listening to this song was a different experience. I really want to thank you Henrik for making this song.
@henrikwidegren
6 ай бұрын
Thanks!
I was a medical student in Florence when Macchiarini became Professor there. I remember his name in the newspaper everyday, as the Tuscany politicians strongly wanted him. Then once in Florence, the thoracic surgery school doctors just hated him and tried everything to kick him out. It was my opinion that we had a superstar and we lost him to the Karolinska because of the envy of his Italian colleagues… It was the 2010.
@henrikwidegren
3 ай бұрын
Fascinating!
@PinkNintendoDuo87
12 күн бұрын
Glad that you dodged a bullet! Your fate would’ve been MUCH different had Paolo Macchiarini stuck around any longer. Unfortunately, he won’t be the 1st nor last of the corrupt STEM professionals.
Stopping by for a listen thanks to Dr. Francis. Such a tragic and almost unbelievable story; thank you for a serious yet catchy song.
Came here from medlife and I love your song. It's very powerful to hear.
What a sad story. My thoughts and prayers for all his victims. :( Thanks for sharing.
a chilling song for an equally chilling tale. brilliant storytelling.
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Wow, amazing work, it really is a tragic story, more people need to tell stories though ballads, its such a amazing form of storytelling
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
i really like this version with only the guitar but it's sadly not on any of the streaming services
@henrikwidegren
8 ай бұрын
No, I have not recorded it with only guitar. But maybe I should?
@killbuen3408
8 ай бұрын
@@henrikwidegren I hope so its really good with only guitar gives a mix of cowboy and medieval/knights tale vibe
@Tanrna
4 ай бұрын
@@henrikwidegren Yes! Please do.
I hope this goes viral.
I love this! Came here from Medlife Crisis and I cannot stop watching this
As many others I've find this vid through the Medlife Crisis channel, but I can't help myself from coming back to listen the song.... It sounds damn good just as a song besides all the meaning behind it... I hope this one will be your big breakthrough to the medical music scene ;))
Medlife Crisis thank you for bringing me here
This is making me cry...
” so he planted stem cells in a garden hose “ that is so horrible It was just a piece of plastic pipe and he thought it would grow to another organ and he experimented on humans . It wasn’t even tested on animals !! These patients were tortured to death slowly . They suffered horribly in their last moments If my trachea was damaged and I had to choose between death and having this thing operated in me I would choose death easily . Thank you henrik for this serious song telling the story about paolo the so called surgeon
@adrianflo6481
2 жыл бұрын
He is still a surgeon, and a pretty good one at that specific job. Its like saying that a person writing a super star Virus is a "so called hacker". That being said we might want to remember that Karolinska institute started out as the Swedish State institute of race biology in 1922, inspiring Hitler.
@therabbithat
2 жыл бұрын
the worst thing is that the choice wasn't death or this, the choice was this or conventional treatments
@Paralyzer
2 жыл бұрын
@@therabbithat he even operated On a Russian woman who had a Tracheotomy, after an accident , a tube inserted in her trachea to help her breath But she wasn’t seriously I’ll. She could live a normal long healthy life , she didn’t have cancer . Instead she choose to be put under the knife by paolo. She died 1.5 years later due to complications.
@jimrodarmel8512
2 жыл бұрын
The reminder about protocol requiring animal testing first reminds me of an article I read regarding the "no animal testing" craze. The author pointed out that if a new product advertises it was not tested on animals. that means it was tested on humans instead. Probably the first customers.
@perkalov
Жыл бұрын
1. Unless you are highly educated in medicin, you'll never understand your options. You would be chosing between "dying a horrible death" or "risk of dying a horrible death with a chance to survive". 2. Self perservation will make the absolute majority chose the alternative where survival is possible, no matter the threat of pain and agony.
This is so much better than the netflix documentary and has all the facts. Nice guitar, btw.
@henrikwidegren
6 ай бұрын
Thanks!
Chills and Tears all over my body .I will nver forget it
Puuhhh, das war so gut🙏 traurig aber wahr🤷🏻♀️
The genre and style of the song fit so well the theme of a mad fake doctor
You know Doctor, this song obviously is about an awful topic but you have really done the poor victims proud I think - their stories deserve to be heard, they need to be heard. And for what it's worth, I much prefer this version to the other one, the tone really suits the gravity of the subject. Haunting. Thanks to you, all who have heard this song will never forget this story.
@henrikwidegren
2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Great entertainment Henrik! Keep up the good work.
@henrikwidegren
5 ай бұрын
Thanks, will do!
I wish you been my doctor really I need a professional like you I have suffered with ear
Came here from Medline Crises - what a story 😬. Your song, however, is absolutely hilarious! Can't wait, to check out your other stuff.
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Here from Medlife! LOVE you. Subscribed.
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Welcome!!
Wow! Du förtjänar fler lyssnare! ❤️
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Absolut! 😊
Brilliant. Inte roligt, men viktigt att komma ihåg!
A perfect song for a perfect monster! 👌
Such a chilling and horrible story... You putting it into song will help people remember this, and hopefully be less willing to put up with such irresponsible and criminal behaviour. Great work.
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Incredible story, and so sad. Did he really use garden hose? *shaking head* Bless you for singing of the truth, and for making such an awesome song as you did so.
@FaerieDust
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly wasn't too far from garden hose tbh... Just a bit of plastic tubing. The whole story is absolutely disgraceful.
I keep coming back to this, one they I will know it by heart
Wonderful. Thank you Dr Francis for sending me here, I can't wait to watch all your other videos!
This needs to be heard.
Så tragiskt att det gick så långt. Bra låt
Wow this is really great! Together with medlife crisis treatment of the topic, it really imprinted the images of Macchiarini's mistreatment into my mind.
Best to stay away from persons with "dark triad personality" ... Great song however. You nailed it!
@henrikwidegren
5 ай бұрын
I agree. Thank you!
Alltså bästa kanalen jag sett!!! Du har ett nytt fan!
Thank you Henrik, thank you medlife, this is great :)
This is so interesting and you’ve got such a great voice I could listen to you for hours!!
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😊
gillar den här versionen lite vemodigt sound
Love from sweden! Oh, you are from sweden.
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Yes we are!
Suveränt Henrik!
Please put this on Spotify too
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
If I do an "acoustic" album I will!
Estoy sorprendida. Un gusto escucharlo, doc 👏👏 ¡Saludos!
Rohin sent me here. You're very talented Henrik
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
thank you for this!
Came from medlife crisis. This sounds beautiful and a important story
@henrikwidegren
9 ай бұрын
Thanks!
What an excellent song. You are very talented!
@henrikwidegren
9 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Riktigt bra !!!
@henrikwidegren
3 ай бұрын
Tack!
Bravo! 👏 Great song! Educational content too!
What a fantastically entertaining and interesting ballad
Here from Medlife Crisis. Subscribed.
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Woh 🎉
Bravissimo!!!!
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Bravo!
Bra jobbat!! 😀
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Tack!
Thank you!
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Thanks to medlife crisis for pointing me to you. Awesome songs on this channel!
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Welcome!
Wow! Great song! I also came here from Medlife Crisis and subscribed here. Besides this one, there are also other good songs here (e.g. Corona). Keep up the good work!
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for listening
Very good.
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Is this the healer in your DnD party that happens to also have bard skills...
Honeslty Bravo!!!!!
@henrikwidegren
9 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Was this new version to, in part, commemorate your victory in court against Macchiarini's slander case? I hope (and imagine) it got thrown out on the grounds that telling the truth is not slander.
@binkao2938
Жыл бұрын
Oddly enough I’ve been told something doesn’t have to be a lie to be slander in Swedish law, but idk
자막천사 출동할 시간~! 이번곡은 라임이 죽이네요 ㅋㅋㅋ
@jefferyhanderson7849
2 жыл бұрын
Aren't you being insensitive by just laughing while talking about rhymes? 6 people died because of a fraud doctor :(
@yeahah3425
2 жыл бұрын
해나 워런 이라는 캐나다.한국혼혈 아기 기도이식수술을 집도했었던 의사인데. 수술성공을 전제로 여러 의학논문을 위조했죠. 내용은 줄기세포를 이용한 인공 장기이식 이런거였어서 굉장한 이슈였는데요. 줄기세포는 황우석박사때도 엄청났잖아요 기억하시죠?나중엔 다 사기였다는것도 그렇지만요... 근데 문제는 생명들이 다. 꺼졌다는겁니다. 다 돌아가셨어요. 아마 저 수술을 받지않았다면 힘들더라도 조금은 더 살수도있었을텐데. 남은가족들의희망도 .환자의 삶도 모두 짓밟힌겁니다. 그래서 이분이 노래를 만드신거고요. 이상 지나가던 설명충 이었습니다.^^
@apt43210
2 жыл бұрын
제가 현생이 너무바빠 이번곡 번역이 좀 늦었습니당 ㅠㅜ!
진짜 실화였네요;;
Starkt Henrik att göra denna låt väldigt bra gjort
what a nightmare scenario
@henrikwidegren
Жыл бұрын
It is!
Henrik, hur har jag missat dig förut? Du är tveklöst Årets Svensk i min bok!
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Tack!
👏👏👏From tuscany.
@henrikwidegren
Жыл бұрын
Thank you from Sweden!
👏👏👏👏👏
👍🏼
cool song
@henrikwidegren
9 ай бұрын
Thank you!
What he did is so far from a laughing matter, the way he destroyed and ended life, the way the whistle blowers were treated and the way the board of KI dragged our amazing Institute and Hospitals name in the mud. BUT this song was spot on, just what we needed, it’s so tragic that feeling it is too much to handle. So being able to laugh at his stupidity and pathetic excuse for a doctor is just brilliant 😂😭
Jag tycker att du gör både den Svenska och den Engelska versionen väldigt bra! Du får till allvaret, heder till dom sjuka och piken till "stjärnkirurgen" på ett sätt som förklarar och berör sanningen!
@henrikwidegren
Жыл бұрын
Tack!
Nice
@henrikwidegren
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Brilliant song, super fun to repeat. Is it on a music streaming service somewhere?
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! You can find it on Spotify and other streaming services. It's on the album Medical Melodies and Surgical Songs. And a remix on the album Doctor Feelgood.
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You can than Medlife Crisis for a new subscriber!
Do no harm to patients.
who else came from Medlife Crisis?
amazing song, what are the chords?
@henrikwidegren
2 жыл бұрын
Lyrics and chords are in the end of the description: EmEmDEm GDAmB7 EmDGB7 EmAmB7Em
you remind me of Ivo Jahelka who did (maybe still does?) similar songs out of court cases since he was a lawyer
@henrikwidegren
Жыл бұрын
I have to check him up!
Hey, what kind of guitar is that?
@henrikwidegren
3 ай бұрын
Sorry for late response: A Gretsch Rancher Falcon. A very nice guitar!
Fin låt Henrik! Melodin påminner lite om Balladen om herr Fredrik Åkare, inspiration kanske? Tror jag fortsatt håller mig till att gå till vårt fina blocket om jag blir dålig och undviker Karolinska 😶
@ha-gr6yh
5 ай бұрын
Okej nu hörde jag sista stycket, visste att det var Cornelis 😜