Reading the tea leaves
Until a few decades ago, doctoring in Italy was half-sorcery, with inked lab results seen as the most arcane of mysteries
Musical drugs
What's available in Italy and what's not can be difficult even for a working doctor to track, since some drugs vanish only to reappear.
In the beginning
When a New York doctor moved to Rome in the bleak days of 1978, it was the start of a really big adventure.