Posted on 06/03/2007 7:10:28 PM PDT by grundle
The former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, 70, has undergone heart surgery in the United States.
His party Forza Italia said the operation, carried out in Cleveland, Ohio, was necessary to correct Mr Berlusconi's irregular heart rhythm.
His heart problems emerged last month when he collapsed at a political rally.
Italian media suggested he had gone to the US to be fitted with a pacemaker. The surgeon confirmed that the surgery was successful, Forza Italia said.
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi sent a message of goodwill to his rival.
"Dear Silvio, I am relieved to know that the operation that you have undergone in these hours in the United States has been successfully completed," it said, according to a text released by his office to Associated Press.
Mr Berlusconi, who is leader of the centre-right opposition and Italy's richest man, admitted last month that he should "slow down".
He made the comments after leaving hospital, where he spent three days after collapsing during a speech he was making to his party in Tuscany.
Doctors said they detected an irregular heartbeat.
The Shaw of Iran also came here when he had cancer.
I’m not sure what the ‘shaw’ is, but the *shah* of Iran did come by. We were on friendly terms with his government at the time.
Even Mother Teresa came here to get her health care..
Shah is a ruler, shaw is something your grandmother wears.
Don’t they all?
I guess he, and Andrew Speaker, wanted to come somewhere they changed the sheets in Hospitals.
I stand corrected. I meant Shah. Sorry.
So does virtually every immigrant, legal or otherwise.
Yeah, I goofed. ;-)
I remember travelling with a group of athletes in Hungary back in the 1980s and one young man said “if I get hurt or injured, DON’T, under ANY circumstances, take me to one of these hospitals...I’d rather you just SHOOT me!
The only thing wrong with American Healthcare is all the politicians trying to get their grubby hands on how to control our decisions on our own health!
Italy’s richest man and center right. Good for him!
Yeah, all the socialist Democrats can just go @#$% off.
no problem
“Shah is a ruler, shaw is something your grandmother wears.”
A SHAWL is something your Granny wears, a Shah is a ruler.
When you live in a fantasy you can make anything fit your ‘reality’, and be self righteous about it at the same time. There is nothing objective or intellectually honest about liberalism. In my opinion much of liberalism hangs on a thread of hate.
This news may as old as six months, but anything to put mickey moore to shame is fine by me.
Ping!
Most libs I know are more emotional than intellectual. And their emotion of choice seems to be seething rage.
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