Magi (Ordine medici Roma): "Ogni anno 10% abbandona Italia per Gb, Usa, Israele e Paesi arabi"

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(Adnkronos) - “Carenza cronica di personale, insicurezza, ricorso alla medicina difensiva per evitare contenziosi con i pazienti. Questi i principali problemi che assillano i medici italiani”

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00:00A sign of discomfort for doctors is that they have to go to work abroad, they are asked to go to work abroad.

00:11Rome is obviously the largest order in Europe and has a fairly important digital situation.

00:17Every year, about 1,500 colleagues, young doctors and older doctors, ask to be able to go to work abroad.

00:24The majority of young people ask to be able to go to work in community countries,

00:29and extra-community countries, such as the United States, Great Britain, Israel, are the most requested countries.

00:37The extra-community countries are, let's say, the older ones, the doctors who try to go to Arab countries,

00:44obviously because there they find an economic situation that allows them,

00:50when they finish their work, to have an economic tranquility.

00:55These are the main motivations.

00:58For young people, however, it is obviously not only an economic factor,

01:02because there is a big difference in the retribution in European countries compared to what happens in Italy,

01:08but above all for a career opportunity and also for the fact that there is no penalty for a medical act.

01:15So, obviously, there is only the possibility of, in the event of an error,

01:20of retributing, of compensating those who have suffered the damage,

01:24but there is no penalty, which clearly affects the doctor, but it affects him deeply.

01:30So he loses security, he loses tranquility, and he goes into a psychological situation of serious difficulty.

01:35The doctor always thinks he can help the next one.

01:38He never leaves home because he wants to hurt someone.

01:41He leaves home when he goes to work to save lives.

01:44In the course of the day, doctors now find themselves in a very difficult situation.

01:48In short, they don't live it very well in this period.

01:51Clearly, this fact is linked to a chronic shortage of staff,

01:56of structure, of security in the workplace and also of serenity when one works,

02:03because obviously, having pressures also created by violence against health workers,

02:09created by numerous complaints, etc., and especially after COVID,

02:14clearly a large part of the staff went into a burnout.

02:17So, obviously, they find themselves in an unfavorable condition to be able to operate in the best possible way.

02:22And this, unfortunately, clearly affects the patients.

02:25So we, as doctors, have objective difficulties that we must somehow solve.

02:31So we try to make everyone understand that a doctor is working,

02:36on the job, in the emergency department, in the ambulatory,

02:39he is there to treat patients, not to solve problems.

02:43And the other important thing is that he is there because he is a friend,

02:46he is a person who tries to solve all those situations that,

02:50obviously, can be, let's say, somehow discussed and seen

02:55in the context of what are the health problems of each of us.

02:59Obviously, what are the difficulties that the doctor finds today?

03:03He clearly finds a difficulty related to the fact that there is no depenalization of the medical act,

03:11for which, obviously, he finds himself in a situation of difficulty,

03:15where he should be, let's say, denounced.

03:18So how does he defend himself? He defends himself with defensive medicine.

03:21So increasing what is the health expense, even improperly.

03:25Here, this and also other problems, clearly, afflict the professionals,

03:30including, obviously, the lack of contributions compared to other European countries.

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