Naples, all in line with the general practitioner: “Patients demand the Green Pass without the vaccine”

He denounced it with a post on Facebook: «Imbeciles and bullies – he thundered -. They risk losing their jobs, but they demand bogus certifications. To my denial, they react by threatening to report me. I answer everyone to run and do it. The obligation of the Green pass is praised ». The story he denounces is similar to what happened and also reported in Palermo by the Order of Doctors. Peppe Russo, a life on the left, first in the city council and then in the regional council, where he was also leader of the Democratic Party, is a general practitioner with an outpatient clinic in Ponticelli. Maximalist, as they say, but not in the sense of political radicalism, but for having reached the maximum number of clients. In short, his clinic in Ponticelli is a real crossroads crowded with people, the most varied in terms of needs and social background.
What happened?
“Some of my patients require me to certify them to obtain the Green pass, otherwise they cannot enter the workplace. These are people who, of course, have not been vaccinated. They threaten to report me. Do it as well. I told one of them that I would have anticipated him at the carabinieri station ».
Vdo they take the Green pass without getting vaccinated?
“Exactly so. They feel the risk of losing their jobs, of being subject to sanctions and suspensions, but not of getting infected and of not breathing anymore and ending up in intensive care. I notice a very dangerous underestimation-removal of the Covid problem. But I was clear with everyone: you don’t mess with me, I reiterated to each of them, and I don’t accept these requests and I will never accept them. Making false cards, we don’t really talk about it. I have a professional ethic to respect, me. But above all there is a very heavy risk for the health of those who do not get vaccinated ».
What reasons do they give?
«Various allergies, health problems. But then they come to tell me that I am their doctor? I warned them and reassured them in every way: for me you can get vaccinated and if you don’t, you risk bad things ». They are civil servants?
“The latest arrival in my office to make a request for a false certification works in a cleaning company, but it is active in a hospital. At my refusal he raised his voice, almost as if the problem was me not allowing him to go to work. In the end he seems to be convinced: he wants to try to get vaccinated but in a protected facility. With all the necessary guarantees. He said he will go to the ASL and forward a specific request ».
Do you think he will get vaccinated?
“I hope so”.
What about the others who came to your study?
“Some teachers with the terror of the vaccine:” who knows what it contains. ” But what should it contain? And don’t you ask yourself the same question about everything you eat? Much of those foods you don’t even know where they came from and how they got to your table. And the drugs that I have been prescribing for years and that you take without making a fuss? Are there no side effects expected there? “
How did it turn out?
“Apparently she’s convinced, but on the condition that I give her the vaccine. The main problem is the phobia. but at this rate the fiduciary relationship is being damaged, first with science and secondly with us doctors. Just take a ride on social media to meet insidious prophets of doom ready to predict the end of the world to those who approach the vaccine. The infodemic, the bombardment of the web, the gurus of the net and the Taliban from the keyboard have a grip on everyone, not only on the less culturally equipped people, but also on the many who, by role and, let’s say, by training, should be more prudent ».
It’s not all their fault.
“In fact, the information chaos of recent months has made it even worse, and much of the responsibility lies with the institutions and science stars who have spent their time performing on TV, instead of informing and reassuring the population.”