Grosseto, 24 June 2022 – Trusting your family doctor in prescribing drugs and diagnostic tests helps the health system to realize the concept of appropriateness that guarantees the universalism of treatments. To give everyone what they really need and not an answer to personal perception and expectations. It streamlines the waiting lists, avoids the waste of resources, contributes to an informed and correct use of drugs, not to expose oneself to a diagnosis that brings benefits, but when it is really necessary.
The pandemic, which is not over yet, has certainly made an extraordinary commitment, in the face of better assistance, of many resources. This human effort, but also economic, has led the company to record excellent results in the vaccination campaign and in the treatment of Covid but at the same time put the whole system to a severe test.
In this delicate context, it is also the responsibility of the patients not to make improper requests to their doctor in order not to cause unpleasant short circuits which can, on the one hand, create difficulties for the professional in the exercise of the profession and, more generally, contribute to putting at risk the tightness of the system.
They are the small drops of rain that, if they fall constantly and copiously, make the rivers overflow, for this reason it is important that everyone feels called into question, when they go to their doctor to follow the indications that the professional of health prescribes, because he is the one who knows better than any other the patient’s medical history, history and needs.
“The family doctor is the professional to whom the citizen entrusts his health – explains Renato Tulino, director of the Department of General Medicine of the Asl Tse – This professional, on a daily basis, is pressed by requests that often clash with the real well-being of the patient . The family doctor is also called upon to appropriate the resources in order to guarantee public health assistance to all citizens who need it. It is often believed that the drug that costs more or that is recently marketed is superior in efficacy to existing ones or that they cost less. It is important to underline that this is not always the case and your family doctor is certainly able to prescribe what is best for that type of patient also by virtue of all the drugs that, especially the most fragile and complex patients, have in continuous therapy. “.
“It is fundamental – concludes Tulino – to understand that ‘waste’ also consumes the resources that one has or could need, so we are all required to check in order not to find ourselves in the unfortunate situation of lack of service, because what is available is wasted or consumed badly by others “.