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.
My niece had just moved to Italy and she was alone and started hemorhaging. She managed to get help and they took her to an Italian hospital, they treated her like a queen but she was shocked at how archiac the hospital was.
So did singer Elton John’s “husband” to get medical treatment for his father: http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/furnish%20slams%20michael%20moore_1032867
I agee with you. They’re desperately pushing Hitlery-care.
LOL!
Actually, Marx himself was involved in a duel at one point, which to me may be a good indication of his inability to control his own anger. He seemed very much historically like a ‘rebel without a cause’, and an irresponsible youth who ran up big bills apparently socializing while attending university (his father had to pay them). When he went to Berlin and met Hess and Bauer he found a cause for his rebelliousness and thus began his career as a communist and hero to the left.
That’ll change when a Democrat becomes president.
actually a “shawl” is something your grandmother wears:)
Your typical Italian believes the health care in Cuba is excellent and that health care in the US is only for the wealthy. They think the poor are dying outside the doors of the hospitals because they aren’t allowed in. Seriously. The disease of socialism over there rots their brains.
America has the best health care that MONEY can buy.
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