Word: tagliapietra
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...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 for the job. The case has been turned over to Bruno Tagliapietra, staff doctor on duty at the city hospital...
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...
Free to Continue. Anguished Carlo Ricci went to the police, and after due investigation Drs. Gardin, Tagliapietra, Torres and Strina were charged with manslaughter through negligence...
...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 that Strina...
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