n. 4/2000
 

 

                                                                                                                                                  Sergio Angeletti

 

 

 

 


 

Soles e radiologistsWho remembers the "dab soles"? They were all the rage till around the end of the seventieth, then disappeared: replaced by the far less propagandised "flounders".They were introduced as "soles, and furthermore as dab", instead they were neither soles.The dab is a pleuronettide, but it has neither the trading nor the gastronomic rank of the sole.It seems that radiologists must undergo a luck alike "with some further words on the label".When the Health Minister decided, rightly, to replace the old denomination of "Radiology" into the more modern and medical "Radiodiagnostics", this term was already in use in the universities of Genoa, Messina and L'Aquila.But by the chance of a competition for radio diagnostic managers, the IV office of the ministry sent a note (to the rectors of the three controversial incriminated universities, and other "co-defendants") invalidating by now the specialization in "Radio diagnostics and science of images" over years in possession of physicians that obtained it in those medicine faculties.Well then: logic would imply that the Ministry, aware of having forgotten to list-in this denomination already in use in the Genoa, Messina and L'Aquila Universities, put a remedy to its forgetfulness or, to be pedantic, would require the universities to uniform themselves to the other ones (!!!).Bureaucracy applies instead the rule of "Ipse/a non dixit", and so those specialist physicians find themselves as pseudo-specialists. Suddenly thanks to the Rosy's wooden wand they finds themselves professionally illegal, and they can neither take part in competitions nor mature seniority, or be covered by insurances for professional risks, the less propose themselves European level: "they don't fit the union directives".With the detail that the sole is not a dab, as the dab is not a sole.But in medicine, Radio diagnostics is the main science of images: does the all rosy ministry know it?Malicious could think that, since the "compromise agreement" arose from that competition, to which radio diagnostics physicians working at the International Evangelic Hospital in Genoa took part, the matter concerned first of all faith and clique: may a radiologist deserve trust if relying on Pastors and it's not consecrated to communion? Then Liberation is looked for through the bureaucratic quibbles.How is brightly transparent the Radiology/Radio diagnostics...

 

 

 

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