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Just before 2000, "Leadership Medica", too, wanted to celebrate with many of the doctors - both heads of hospitals and university teachers - who have been collaborating with the magazine.
The soirée took place at the Radisson Hotel of Milan, where a lot of guests gathered, being attracted by the Christmas atmosphere and wishing to meet colleagues they had not seen for ages, but also wishing to exchange opinions and talk together about what could be defined the "state of health of health", using an easy joke.

Actually Mr Casartelli, a high executive of the Lombard public health who substituted councillor Borsani, who was absent due to serious family reasons, illustrated in detail the results achieved in the last few years by the regional councillor's office and the prospects of a sanitary policy that strongly aims at a form of autonomy that is sometimes mentioned by law but is almost never applied. This is demonstrated by the continuous disagreements between the Ministry of Health and Regione Lombardia, which bear witness to the clash between two entirely antithetic basic concepts.

The debate ensuing from this topic once more underscored that the issues to be solved are always the same: the necessity, in Italy, to carry out more research, the controversial process of privatization of health organizations, the relations between local and central government, and so on. Unfortunately, no one talked about the doctor-patient relationship, a very important topic that is particularly subject to manipulation, and which is never dealt with in an exhaustive way.
But let us put aside for a while the most serious issues, which we deal with all the year round, to remember that the party at the Radisson Hotel was also the occasion to celebrate Mariano Congiu, the humorist who has been collaborating with "Leadership Medica" since the first number.

His most beautiful cartoons published in our magazine have been collected in a volume entitled "Meglio riderci sopra" (Better to laugh about it), which was distributed to all participants. Many doctors asked Congiu to sign the book; Congiu, who is a very shy person, at first seemed to be very surprised by this welcome, but then he seemed to really enjoy it.

Among the others, the party was attended by professor PaoloMantegazza, the rector of Università Statale of Milan, professor Parenzan, a veteran of heart surgery, professor Gattinoni, several executives of various local health authorities, as well as several representatives of universities and the press.
While saying goodbye to all participants, the director of "Leadership Medica" wished the magazine and his collaborators a gratifying new millennium and invited everybody to the next meeting.

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