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.
The Runaway Doctor
The Runaway Doctor
Buzz Bissinger | Vanity Fair | December 22, 2010 | 8,477 words
When luxury-loving Dr. Mark Weinberger vanished, in 2004, he left in his wake a wife saddled with more than $6 million in debts, a father headed for bankruptcy, and hundreds of patients who say he misdiagnosed them and performed completely unnecessary sinus surgeries. Now “TheNoseDoctor” of Merrillville, Indiana, is facing prison, along with more than 350 malpractice suits, after finally being captured while hiding out in a tent in the Italian Alps. The author investigates charges that a talented young physician became a greedy, mutilating mon
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