“We also said this to the Minister of Health Schillaci: if we do not change the system of wages and allowances for all those who work in the emergency-urgency area, wages that recognize the obvious tiring work, prohibitive conditions, stress which then it also involves medical-legal responsibilities, there will be a flight of doctors from the Emergency-urgency”. Thus at Adnkronos Salute Antonino Giarratano, president of Siaarti – Italian Society of Anaesthesia, Resuscitation, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, on the sidelines of the 78th National Congress of the scientific society underway in Naples, comments on the data of the 7th Gimbe Report on the Service national healthcare.
“If the system of legal disputes and professional responsibility is not changed – warns Giarratano – it is inevitable that, despite their vocation, there will be fewer and fewer doctors who will choose to operate in emergency-urgency”. The Gimbe Report by President Cartabellotta “addresses the issue of specializations – explains Giarratano – a theme that concerns all schools, including that of Emergency-urgency, an area in which the problem is not structural or membership-related, but derives from the fact that the territory it doesn’t work, and therefore we are witnessing an assault on the emergency rooms, an aspect that will forever limit the access of doctors to this area”.
The rate of young doctors who join the School of Specialization in Anesthesia and Resuscitation “who give up after the first year is very low. So I wouldn’t speak of a vocational crisis”, specifies Giarratano. “We have the immediacy of saving a human life, but the real problem is related to the quality of life that one must then lead to carry out the profession”.
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