Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last chat with Private Secretary Chaliew, his comrade-in-arms during an anti-government coup back in 1932. "Good-bye, old comrade," said the general as machine-gun slugs tore into his friend. After ten rounds, Chaliew was dead. It took ten more rounds before the prison doctor pronounced Chit dead, and 20 full rounds for Busya. But at last the execution was done, the closet was tidy, and only one question remained unanswered: Who killed King Ananda...
...telephone Dr. Lavezzi demurred. It was late, he said, and he had to get up early next day to treat an out-of-town patient. Giovanna's sister-in-law told Lavezzi that they would get another doctor and called Dr. Luigi Gardin, obstetrical consultant at Venice's Ospedale al Mare. Gardin agreed to come, told Giovanna's husband Carlo to meet him at a square near his house. Ricci waited at the appointed place for 40 minutes, then telephoned Gardin again. The doctor's excuse: "I don't have the instruments...
Fatal Buck-Passing. Actually, Obstetrician Gardin had no assurance that Tagliapietra would take the case. In fact, Tagliapietra in the meantime had merely ordered a nurse to call still another physician, Feliciano Torres, a fashionable young doctor with a private practice. But Torres, too, pleaded lack of proper instruments. Moreover, he added, the Riccis' house was much too far from...
Unaware of this buck-passing, Ricci started home after making his phone call, but met his brother-in-law, who reported that Giovanna now needed emergency treatment. Ricci ran over to the city hospital to find Tagliapietra, only to be informed that the doctor was busy...
Lavezzi was cleared on the ground that the Ricci family had told him they would get another doctor.) Last week, after lengthy investigation, Venice's criminal court ruled on the case. Dr. Torres was fully exonerated, because he had not been called directly by the family. Dr. Gardin and Dr. Tagliapietra were both found guilty. Penalty: suspended five-month prison sentences, payment of court costs and damages yet to be fixed. The last and best-known of the four, 73-year-old Francesco Strina, won acquittal but only because of lack of sufficient evidence. The verdict in effect admitted...