Pope’s doctor urges caution
NZPA-Reuter Rome Pope John Paul II was reported to be making more progress vesterday. but one of his doctors cautioned against excessive optimism because the second operation he would have to undergo carried risks. Dr Francesco Crucitti said. "It is very premature to talk about his recovery. His wounds are grave and he still needs another operation." Dr Crucitti said the second operation — to reverse the Pope's colostomy, an intestinal by-pass procedure por-
formed in emergency sin gery after he was shot in the intestines — was not minor surgery, "It's' surgery and carries with it certain risks." It was not likely to be performed for at least a month. The Pope took a dailywalk outside his eleventhfloor suite and conferred with the Vatican Secretarv of State (Cardinal Agostino Casaroli) yesterday. The Pope also telephoned his ailing mentor, the Primate of Poland (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski) who has been seriously ill for nearlv two months in Warsaw.
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