Death Maradona, the doctor defends himself: “Investigate who Diego was”

BUENOS AIRES – Maradona’s personal physician is under investigation for manslaughter. The San Isidro Prosecutor’s Office registered the study and address of Dr. Leopoldo Luque, 39, the neurosurgeon who had operated on Diego’s brain on November 3 and who, above all, handled the discharge and home care stages. Converted, according to the magistrates, with carelessness and negligence. “But I know that I have done everything possible,” the doctor vehemently defended during an impromptu press conference. “Maradona died of the heart, the most common thing in the world. That world that Diego hated, hated everything and everyone but I felt the responsibility to love him, I was his friend and he needed help ”.

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The surgeon’s defense is that no one can be treated against his will: “Maradona was a very difficult patient. Why don’t you investigate now who this man was? Sometimes he would kick me out of the house and then call me. He certainly couldn’t. I admitted him to an asylum without authorization from a psychiatrist, and I could not even force him to enter a rehabilitation clinic, when he was discharged there was permission, we have videos where it is clearly seen that he was well. than his due, but more : I have the proof, I have the documents and I will prove it. Sometimes Diego did not even get out of bed to receive his daughters. “

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However, large areas of shadow remain at the end of Maradona and in Dr. Luque, who called the ambulance at 12:23 on Wednesday November 25 with a very calm voice, as if everything had already happened, and not even mentioning Maradona’s name. Luque in the emergency call with the operators spoke only of a 60-year-old patient in cardiocirculatory arrest. The champion was very attached to this young doctor twenty years younger, but as was often the case even in important human relationships, he went from love to hate and back to love with great ease, and with those sudden changes of ‘mood that usually accompanies depressive syndromes.

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In the investigation that has just been opened, those five hours of which little is still known must be clarified. What time did Maradona really die? Was the rescue called immediately? Why, who was in the house, called Dr. Luque and not the emergency room? Perhaps Diego had already stopped living? And why was he pronounced dead only after 1pm? How is it that Gisela Madrid, the nurse who took care of him, retracted the first testimony in which she claimed to have attended Maradona all morning, when perhaps she had not even seen him? Who forced her to lie and, above all, why?

Dead Maradona, the investigated neurosurgeon defends himself: “There was no medical error”