Word: giovanna
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...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...
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...
...then it was 3 :30 a.m., and Giovanna had been hemorrhaging for an hour and 40 minutes. Frantically, Ricci finally went to the home of Dr. Francesco Strina, one of the city's best-known gynecologists. Awakened, Strina refused to go to Giovanna's aid; he would not "repair damage done" by the midwife, who, besides, worked with Dr. Lavezzi, a competitor...
Carlo Ricci hurried home and with his relatives carried his wife to San Cassiano Hospital. There, Dr. Lavezzi, who had finally appeared in response to a second call, tried to stop the hemorrhage. It was too late. At 4:30 a.m. Giovanna Ricci died...
...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 that Strina's intervention probably could not have saved Giovanna, but it implicitly rejected his plea that, as a private practitioner, he was not obliged to intervene in the first place...