PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Professor Corrado Manni, the pope's anesthetist during his life-saving surgery beginning with the 1981 shooting in St Peter's Square, smiles during an interview in his Rome home 09 March 2005. Manni, professor emiritus of Gemelli teaching hospital where Pope John Paul II was hospitalized, said that the secret of the pope's psychological and physical resistance is his iron will. "Al Papa lo ayuda su voluntad de hierro" BY KELLY VELASQUEZ

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Professor Corrado Manni, the pope's anesthetist during his life-saving surgery beginning with the 1981 shooting in St Peter's Square, smiles during an interview in his Rome home 09 March 2005. Manni, professor emiritus of Gemelli teaching hospital where Pope John Paul II was hospitalized, said that the secret of the pope's psychological and physical resistance is his iron will. "Al Papa lo ayuda su voluntad de hierro" BY KELLY VELASQUEZ

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Professor Corrado Manni, the pope's anesthetist during his life-saving surgery beginning with the 1981 shooting in St Peter's Square, smiles during an interview in his Rome home 09 March 2005. Manni, professor emiritus of Gemelli teaching hospital where Pope John Paul II was hospitalized, said that the secret of the pope's psychological and physical resistance is his iron will. "Al Papa lo ayuda su voluntad de hierro" BY KELLY VELASQUEZ

Pope John Paul II, whose shoulder is in bandages, is helped by his doctor Renato Buzzonetti (R) as he leaves the "Gemelli" hospital in Rome, Italy, 12 November 1993. The Pope spent the night in hospital recovering from an operation from a small fracture and dislocation of his right shoulder injured after tripping and falling down during a private audience 11 November 1993.