The patient was in for a routine check. It was just for a routine liver biopsy, nothing serious. He checked into the hospital but didn’t get the best roommate. The roommate was an alcoholic with a history of psychiatric problems. When nobody was around it seems that our alcoholic patient decided to take the banker’s clothes and go for a walk. The banker had very good taste in clothing as was obvious from his “handsome” silver metallic suit.
This was only realized near the end of the shift. Pretty much as you might expect when somebody takes someone else’s property you have to get the police involved. Our Dr. heroine bore witness to the entire situation. It began with with people being hurriedly interviewed and all of the facts being written down in a notebook.
It is less clear what happened to the keys, wallet and other personal effects but in general things turned as it could have been expected. The alcoholic with a new suit and a pocket full of money felt like going out and celebrating. He was found a few hours later sleeping it off on a park bench. Standard procedure for the German police when they find a passed out person is to bring him to a hospital for medical attention.
Imagine the surprise, not even 12 hours later, when our heroine walked into a room to check on a new patient. The previous alcoholic was now laying in a new room in the same hospital being checkout by the same medical staff. There was one additional fact that that was also quite obvious. The drunk was a very well dressed unconscious patient – well that and apparently a very stinky one. It was actually difficult to be in the same room due to the smell of urine, fecal material as well as other odd fragrances.
There must have been a conversation about how the suit was once again found but that was not reported. All we do know is that the banker let his former roommate keep the suit.