Lorenzo Speranza
Department of Law, University of Brescia
Angela Palmieri
Department of Law, University of Brescia
Abstract
“Dr. House’s assistants waste no more time than him in chatting to thepatient: while doing an encephalogram and monitoring a lady, first frombehind a glass wall and then from a computer screen, at a certain time theynotice that her heart-rate flat-lines. They leap up, worried that she mayhave arrested, and only then notice that she is no longer in the room!”