Word: lisi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more-certainly no sign of the malignancy they had feared. Then the question was what to do about the hernia. Operate soon to remove the hernia, advised the Pope's new doctors, Gastroenterologist Antonio Gasbarrini and Surgeon Raffaele Paolucci di Valmaggiore. No, said Chief Papal Physician Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, the Pope is too old (nearing 79) and not strong enough, and he would be too upset by the inability to carry on his duties. That was also the view of Switzerland's unorthodox Dr. Paul Niehans (TIME, Sept. 13). So the doctors decided to continue doing all that...
...Holiness has asked for an egg," said the taut, nervous voice of Papal Physician Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi over the long-distance wire to Bologna. "What am I to do? How shall I tell him he can't have it?" The Pope's new doctor, Antonio Gasbarrini, was delighted. "Tell him he can have not only one egg, but two-and have them flipped with Marsala, if he agrees...
...Acqua, acting Papal Pro-Secretary of State, rushed through the ringing marble corridors of the Vatican to the tiny room on the third floor. He did what he could to ease the Holy Father's suffering; he had called the Pope's physician, Dr. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi. Also to the Pope's bedside came his three nephews, Swiss Dr. Paul Niehans,* and his old friend, Msgr. Domenico Tardini...
Downstairs, meanwhile, a cluster of anxious monsignors waited for some word. Newsmen gathered in a courtyard. At last Dr. Galeazzi-Lisi came down. "The Holy Father's condition is disquieting but not unhopeful," he said, "so long as there is no heart collapse." Misinterpreting the doctor's last words, an excited Italian newsman breathlessly told his paper that the Pope had suffered a heart attack...
...Angelo just laughed. In Rome, he had been careful to accept only patients who were accompanied or referred by a licensed physician. Among the many doctors who had sent the wizard cases was the papal physician, Galeazzi-Lisi. Chuckled D'Angelo: "If they do this to me, they'll have to file against all the doctors who sent me my patients...