the word to the doctors. Francesca Nicolini, “our business emptied of his soul”
“The ISS is not touched”: the title of the evening of Free it’s a government monitor. Giuseppe Morganti of “structural crisis of the speaking services” and of the absence of answers and assistance. Yet – he recalls – “the ability of the health system to be close to its citizens was envied by half the world”. Put the spotlight on basic medicine, “Also stripped of its preventive function“. But it is not by relying on new consultants that problems are solved: “figures detached from the context can find adequate solutions”, he warns, worried by the cuts in services.
The word goes to the doctors. Francesca Nicolini, after years in San Marino, he has been working in Italy since June. “Over the years – he says – the medical activity has been emptied of his soul. The family doctor has become a pure and simple bureaucrat who must manage and direct without taking initiative. Pathways to patients are prescribed from above, by people who do not have an idea of what it is to be a doctor, who are more attentive to cost reduction “. Strong words, dictated by an awareness: “from the moment the IS was corporate, the decline began“. Approach that defines “wrong”, because it puts budget and protocol before the personalization of therapies.
Massimo Rossini, as former Secretary of Health and regrets the times when the relationship between doctor and patient was strong. “The catastrophe – he says – occurred in the last ten years”. He warns the public-private commission: “To think that it saves money – he says – is stupid”. Then there are those who come Enzo Merlini of the CSDL, speaks of distrust in health care, especially if it becomes a terrain of political conflict, as happened in the last Council. There is also a reference to the flight of doctors: “they left because it is not possible to clarify how to do their job”, explains Nicolini. Confirmation Mattia Marzi from USL: “The professionals of the sector must be involved, listened to and not immediately interfered with”. Then he notes the paradox of a call for tenders to find nurses from abroad, to which internal staff who aspire to permanent employment have responded. More generally, Gianluca Montanari of the CDLS, in the face of a healthcare that costs 90 million a year, calls for a project that does not restore the past but that looks ahead. Giuseppe Morganti closes the circle: “When citizens have what they want to build at heart, projects emerge. It is the right way – he concludes – also to do politics “.