Doctor Joseph Vettore

Joseph Vettore, born Giuseppe Ricci-Vettore, is the one and only doctor of Lee County, Missouri. Growing up, he worked aboard various medical ships for the Italian Navy, having been stationed in Northern Sicily. He was born 1894 in Venice, within view of the renowned Rialto Bridge. After working with the Navy for 14 years, and serving in WWII as a medic, he emmagrated to the United States, where he went to a school of medicine in Chicago. After getting a degree, he flew south to Missouri, where he was very soon hired as the doctor of the Lee County Medical Clinic, incorporated in 1953. To this day, he still obtains his same occupation, saving lives on a daily basis. He experts in medicinal-herbology, but also has a small drug-producing room in the back of the clinic.