Word: buzzonetti
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...Vatican quickly fired back this week. John Paul's longtime doctor Renato Buzzonetti, who now monitors Pope Benedict XVI, said that doctors and John Paul himself all acted to stave off death. "His treatment was never interrupted," Buzzonetti told the Rome daily La Repubblica. "Anyone who says otherwise is mistaken." He added that a permanent nasal feeding tube was inserted three days before the Pope's death when he could no longer sufficiently ingest food or liquids. Buzzonetti did not specifically respond to Pavanelli's claim that John Paul needed a tube weeks, not days, before he eventually died...
...fatal. And since the Pope's health is itself increasingly a central issue for the church, there is another key power player to watch. Last week, when the respirator at John Paul's private apartment wasn't enough to clear his breathing, the Pontiff's longtime personal physician, Renato Buzzonetti, decided to rush him to hospital. Not even the Pope dares ignore doctor's orders...
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