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Cento
giorni.
Il
mio viaggio da medico e paziente
David
Biro
Ponte
alle grazie pp. 289
Reading
this autobiographical account is a somewhat disturbing experience. The
reader is absorbed by the fast-moving pace of the book and trials and
tribulations of the main character whose is devastated to diagnose he
has a life-threatening illness. David Biro is a young doctor and promising
researcher from New York who loves his profession and is accustomed
to viewing his work through the eyes of a doctor alone. He unexpectedly,
almost accidentally, discovers he is suffering from a rare disease of
the blood and goes through a range of emotions that we have all experienced
with different levels of intensity: the initial shock, fear, hope, recovery
and a fresh lease of life.
Many
authors have focused on illness as the central theme of many well-known
books and in the past few decades a number of doctors have published
accounts of their own, almost fictionalised experiences, a celebrated
example being Oliver Sacks.
Ponte
alle Grazie belongs to this genre but has an added twist: the doctor
and patient are the same person.
L’equivoco
terapeutico.
Promozione
della salute e negoziazione sociale
Tullia
Saccheri
Franco
Angeli pp. 143
As the Italian National Health Service evolves following a succession
of reforms over the past decade, the debate on public health has been
given fresh impetus. Public health has now become a popular issue and
is discussed by all and sundry: politicians, economists, doctors and
... sociologists. Tullia Saccheri is a lecturer in Sociology of Change
at Salerno University. Saccheri avoids legislative and financial considerations
to tackle the subject of health care at a higher “philosophical” level.
The
author maintains that, viewed from a wider angle, there is a fundamental
link between health and the health service. He believes that “social
care” and “health care” – prevention and treatment, for example - go
hand in hand. Hence the importance of promoting health education and
good health care, so that the latter is only the final stage of a comprehensive
system.
The
issues are interesting, although the language could be simpler, but
we ask ourselves how on earth certain theories can find their way into
health policies which, as we all know, are dictated by multifaceted
and often conflicting interests.
Professione
medico.
Fisco,
Ssn e convenzione
Marco
Perrelli Ercolini
Giuseppe
Messina
Ariete
salute libri pp. 151
Il
nuovo sistema previdenziale.
Manuale
pratico di previdenza per il medico
Marco
Perrelli Ercolini
Edizioni
medico scientifiche pp. 137
The
two publications provide doctors with in-depth information on prevailing
legislation in the areas of tax, social security and the profession
in the strictest sense. Specifically, the book by Perrelli and Messina
gives concise answers to a vast number of questions, such as how to
run a doctor’s surgery, from medical equipment to high-tech resources.
The book also deals with professional ethics (privacy, informed consent,
professional secrecy, etc.), how to fill in a medical report, compulsory
denunciation, professional insurance, etc. Perrelli is a hospital doctor,
treasurer of the Medical Association for the province of Milan and councillor
of the trade union Snami. In the book that bears his signature alone,
Perrelli focuses on the current pension system and the implications
for the medical profession. Though not escapist literature, these volumes
are essential reading for doctors, as they are invaluable guides to
the complex tangle of laws and bureaucracy that dictate all modern professions.
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