I write to your newspaper, because I care about Public Health, my health and that of my fellow citizens. Many doctors from the Ospedale Maggiore of Lodi go to other structures, often private; those who remain have to make up for this lack of personnel with shifts that reach twelve hours a day. So when you need a hospital doctor, you either can’t find him for many months, or we are faced with a rushed doctor (a few minutes for each patient) who risks giving us an incomplete and superficial diagnosis. There is no longer interest in the National Health Service and therefore solutions, the necessary funds or a better organization of Health are not sought involving other medical figures (such as general practitioners) who currently no longer have a reason to exist as without any diagnostic equipment.
I know that problems are solved only if there is the will to do so and if people’s problems are taken to heart. Let’s not force good doctors to leave the hospital (by becoming tokenists)! We need their continuity of work at the same hospital and their diagnoses and treatments without being forced into frantic telephone searches and constant travel in search of other hospitals.