The Runaway Doctor

At the barracks, Weinberger sat at a long table with the officers and wolfed down a bowl of pasta before anyone else was finished. He posed amiably for a picture. Lieutenant Colonel Guido Di Vita, of the Carabinieri, in charge of the region that includes Courmayeur, asked him again who he was, although Di Vita already knew.

“I am a surgeon and I am divorced,” Weinberger said.

He then took out a knife he had concealed and cut himself near his jugular vein, in what some construed as a suicide attempt.

Though a physician, he failed.

Because the wound was superficial.

By Buzz Bissinger, Vanity Fair