Among the stammers of the medical corporation, the summary acquittals and the rhetoric of the surgeon who intervenes “with hardness” in the face of the “politically correct”, finally a simple, clear word arrives: “full solidarity with his colleague for verbal and physical aggression occurred in the operating room at the Tor Vergata University Hospital “, he writes on behalf of Women in Surgery Italia Daniela Regacolarent surgeon at the Pascale of Naples and from 2023 President of the Association. Brings together beyond 300 surgery throughout the country that fight against NEW HERSTERS AND DISCRRIES In a sector still very male.
The case is now known, dates back to June 6 and the Done He gave news on 21. Rega from the first day he supports the doctor Butzonna francesgu37 years old, who denounced the untouchable Professor Giuseppe Sica60, professor of surgery in the second Roman public university, his teacher – for having trimmed a punch to the napea burst of insults such as “imbecile, shameful” recorded with a mobile phone and for having walked it badly from the operating chamber, in front of everyone, in the middle of an intervention in which the prof maneurated the robot from the console and the doctor assisted him, in contact with the patient.
On June 27, the “guarantees” of the Polyclinic and the University have acquitted Sica, in essence they did not believe the doctor and three witnesses who saw the fist. Above all they did not believe in the first aid report Where we read 15 days of prognosis for a “swelling in the left parietal region” due to a reported “aggression from person known during service hours”: it is as if half a team and the PS doctors had agreed to accuse a powerful like Sica. The Lazio Region would have liked at least suspend it And he entered into conflict with the University, now we will see what the rector will do Nathan Levialdi Ghironsuccessor of Orazio Schillaci when he was called to be the Minister of Health. There is a judicial investigation because Franceschilli has filed a lawsuit for injury and private violence with the lawyer Simone Palombi. Indeed, they are two because the patient’s relatives who was under the irons have also made a complaint, and he died. The Tor Vergata Polyclinic (PTV) at the beginning tried to hide the death, if it is not “silence” as the President of the Region says Francesco Rocca There is at least a lot of opacity. Of course there are no elements to connect the death to the dispute.
“Beyond the specific details of the case – which is up to the competent bodies to clarify – what is most alarmed is the narrative that tends to normalize Certain behaviors as part of the ‘surgical tension’, as if raising the voice or attacking verbally and physically was a right connected to the protection of the patient, “he writes Woman in Surgery (WIS). “We believe the opposite: a aggressive environmenthumiliating and dominated by fear compromises the lucidity, concentration and collaboration between operators. If anything, this is to endanger patient security “. And invites not to” underestimate these episodes, reducing them to ‘misunderstandings between colleagues’ or ‘reactions under stress’ “, because” it is not a question of female delicacy, nor of character: these are respect, safety, safety, culture of work“. The Association considers“ even more worrying that the contested behavior concerns one academic figure and training, which also has the task of transmitting the principles of professional ethics to the new generations. It is a devastating message for the trainees, specializations “, present in large numbers also that day in the operating room.
The Association responds decisively to Sica, who with the Done He denied physical aggression, with some colleagues he seems to have admitted a non -violent contact, those who say “involuntary, with the arm” and who “with the knuckles, to draw attention” of his assistant. Instead, he apologized for the insults, but he also justified himself: “The operating room is a theater: a unique, unrepeatable act. It is the front where you really fight between life and death – he wrote last Sunday in a note in which he flies amiably on the facts he is accused – if I perceive a concrete risk for the patient, it is my duty to react. Yes, even with firmness. Yes, even with hardness”. And invoked the “state of necessity“Which is” an absolute exemption. In those moments – he says – what is needed to save a life is done. I would not like someone who is silent for fear of the media pillory or of the politically correct ”. It is an image of the past,” when in the operating room they also took you by biscurate, “says a surgeon just younger than Sica. Which also questioned the reportas if there was a policy favorable to women: “At the PTV for referring an attack on a woman to give 18 days – she wrote to us – to obtain INPS or other advantages”. A sensational accusation since it comes from a primary in service. And for the rest: “I have not given a punch, it will come out when judges and lawyers to ask questions. If I am acquitted, Franceschilli will have to compensate for the rest of life. A madness”.
The surgeons of Wis Italia They mainly turn to their colleagues. The Association informs that “sent a formal letter At the college of ordinary teachers of general surgery, asking for a clear position, consistent with the ethical principles shared by the academic and professional community “. They would like to be the restricted club of the first -rate professors of the matter of which Sica is also part of:” I catch the stimulus, for the moment there is an informal debate, but we follow with concern, I don’t know well that happened, I did not know there was a first aid report, College can express support for the colleague, if anything disappointment, because the episode does not honor surgeons, university species. But we meet in October, “he says to Done Professor Annibale Doniniordinary in Perugia, which presides over the body. “This is not a marginal episode -writes WIS -. And cannot be reduced to a private question”, which was then Sica’s first defense. “It’s a public fact which calls into question the credibility of our institutions “.
The institutions have not made a great impression, not only the health-academic ones of Tor Vergata, also the Surgery company. They are also silent unions On what, after all, is a complaint of aggression at work by a primary male against a women’s doctor, in a subordinate position. Then there are those who look at the finger instead of the moon and focus on mobile phone who recorded the insults and “did not have to be in the operating room”, at least according to the president of the Order of Doctors of Rome, Antonio Magiwhile dozens of surgeons, on the other hand, argue that “smartphones in the operating room enter all right, also because they serve to communicate with the head of the head of the head or to transmit or receive Tac or other images, or an histological examination”, as long as the “washed” operators do not use them, as they say in jargon, or sterile. Which does not seem to have happened here. It is a bit like in Palermo, where the problem, said a good one, “is traffic”.
The President of the Lazio Region Francesco Rocca It was very hard, he said Sica “has no longer had to enter the operating room”, he spoke of “silence and fear” in Tor Vergata and is about to appoint a new commissioner, Ferdinando Romano that comes from Abruzzo, after liquidating Isabella Mastrobuonowelcome to the University: the disaster of the emergency room documented by several inspections and by Report. Al Done The news of Sica’s aggression came after fifteen days from multiple sources that feared “a cover -up” and did not have all the wrongs see then the decision of the “guarantees”. Many attribute other intemperances to Sica, Dr. Franceschilli herself would have been “torn“On another occasion, almost everyone says of Sica” Excellent surgeon but has a bad character “and other episodes could emerge. Not to mention that the department wrote it Republichas no exceptional numbers for a university polyclinic and has seen the escape of several surgeons over the years, just as Sica ascended to the throne.
Certain accidents happen in the best families, even elsewhere: “Of course, unfortunately this happens in surgery and this is what we fight. Nobody can allow you to insult a colleague and let alone lead her – observes it Gaya dustyProf Associata and primary at the University Hospital of Padovafounder of Women in Surgery Italia -. In the United States they suspend you even if you raise your voice in the operating room. “
In public health at the end of 2022 there were 58 thousand women women And 54 thousand men, but in surgies the proportion is much more than reversed: 1,900 women in general surgery against 4,500 men, 30 to 70. The distance spreads dramatically in the most advanced age groups and in the top roles. “Relating numbers, I know them well, my help is a woman – says Professor Donini – there is the problem of reconciling the career with the family and children, there is The cultural problem Of the patient who often also sees a man than a woman in the role of the surgeon. “
