Italian doctor under investigation after smuggling injured cat into hospital for CAT scan Gianluca Fanelli loaded his pet cat Athena into a CAT scanner to find her ‘between life and death’.
Mr Fanelli decided to take her to the Umberto Parini Hospital, where he works in northern Italy, and load her into a CAT scanner to find her “between life and death”.
An Italian doctor is being investigated after he smuggled his injured cat into a hospital to give her a CAT scan and surgery.
The incident made front-page news in Italy and sparked a national debate over whether Mr Fanelli’s decision was valid amid long hospital waiting lists.
Corriere della Sera reported he wrote in a letter to the hospital: “I am sorry if all this has led to a violation of the rules and... should my conduct have caused economic damage of any kind to the company, to personally take charge of its full reimbursement.
