Police on Thursday placed a
surgeon under house arrest on suspicion of extorting 1,000 euros
from a patient.
Dr. Paolo Ronca allegedly promised to let the woman skip a
long waiting list for essential abdominal surgery if she ponied
up the cash.
He was arrested at the hospital where he has worked since
1987 while in the act of accepting a 300-euro advance from the
woman, police said.
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