For that 22.6% more “follow all the rules, but you must carefully evaluate case by case to understand whether or not there is an inability to work”, the clarification
Doctors make a wall – “The certification of disease by the national health service – underlines a The messenger Claudio Cricelli, president of the Italian Society of General Medicine and Primary Care – is mandatory and is also issued on the basis of symptoms presented by patients. Doctors simply certify what they see or what the patient declares. However, there are symptoms that it is not possible to ascertain, think for example of those who say they have stomach ache or dizziness “.
And remember: “The issue of certificates not in the presence of the patient but at a distance is prohibited by law, therefore it is a crime”.
“If the doctors have issued the certificates – the president of the National Federation of orders of surgeons and dentists (Fnomceo) Filippo Anelli always reiterates to Il Messaggero) – they did so following all the rules. The doctor must necessarily visit the patient and must make an objective assessment. However, we make an appeal to be very careful in issuing certificates in compliance with all legal regulations. But this, I repeat, happens regularly and is an integral part of the profession. It is clear that even social unease can sometimes lead to a state of illness. So the doctor must carefully evaluate these situations case by case to understand whether or not they create an inability to work “.
“If a patient comes to the office complaining of an unobjectionable pathology, such as a headache – remarks Pina Onotri, general secretary of the Italian doctors union (SMI) – I believe what he tells me. Some cases cannot be investigated with instrumental investigations. A sometimes it is a pathology that resolves itself in a day or two. This is why we have always said that for short pathologies it would be better a self-certification by the patient“.
“I believe no one has made a compliant certificate – Onotri concludes – we do not allow anyone to make inferences or to imply situations that absolutely do not exist “.
