‘Economic incentives are not enough, so energy runs out’
The president of the Medici Order of Florence: ‘We need a multi-level structural reform’
“Economic incentives, however important, cannot be the only solution. Doctors, at this pace, are unable to cope with day-to-day work in the emergency room. They are not lemons to be squeezed and the energies run out in the long run. While patients are too often forced to wait long before being visited or hospitalized”. Pietro Dattolo, president of the Order of Doctors and Dentists of Florence and its province.
“We need a multi-level structural reform. You can’t just count on the passion of those who work in the rescue, you need to give a better balance between free and working hours, have space for family life and free time, less stress, different career possibilities, you need to ensure a normal life outside the hospital . Organics – he adds Give it to me – they must be strengthened, hiring with adequate and targeted programming, increasing the staff in the hospitals most in difficulty. We implement the Calabria law and we also hire postgraduates: at the age of 27-30, after long years of training, we must consider them professionals in all respects”.
“We are confident that we will soon be able to see the effects of the Pnrr as well, with the introduction of new intermediate care homes capable of taking pressure off the emergency rooms and improving care in the area. However, the road is still long and therefore other interventions are also needed for a situation that is not only Florentine or Tuscan, but similar throughout Italy. We need then -to conclude- of a project that starts from the top, for the revision of the entire emergency-urgency system. The population demands timely responses to health problems, on which there is greater awareness than in the past, and doctors must be able to work with the lucidity and time that medicine requires”.