«My mother – 89 year old frail patient – after an ischemia, on May 25th it was discharged in a ‘bad way’: early discharge which was a cause for criticality and return to hospital after 24 hours. To my great surprise, after my letter was published in the local press (in early June), the head of medicine, Dr. Sama, came to me and from there they started taking care of my mother’s ‘non-health’».
So he says Ivano Mazzanicitizen of Ravenna, curator of various cultural events in the Ravenna area, dealing with health problems, which can sometimes be overcome thanks to teamwork.
Teamwork
In support of Mazzani’s mother, a «medical teamof Dr. Catenaro, Emiliani and Servadei and also of the head doctor herself. There was a discussion with them when they were present in the department in turn, on how they planned the investigations, the therapies, the pharmacopoeia and how to activate integrated in the various roles and in the various professional ways».
«With the nurses and health workers, after that hasty and risky discharge on May 25, we built together, each in our own roles and differences, an exchange of views, both on a human and professional level, within the reality of a fragile patient like my mother. A daily job capable of dealing with various physical and also psychological and healthcare critical issues my mother’s», continues Mazzani.
Mazzani’s reflections on the national healthcare system
«This also applied to me, certainly not from a therapeutic or pharmacological point of view, but for the relationship, the discussion, the exchange and the support which was an important asset. It’s also important to review myself and discuss things with myself again.”
«So my thanks are sincere to all of you medical team 4th floor, in all their roles and my support for the public health service for what it can serve. Full support for the rights and dignity of all people, of patients, of their loved ones, of the professionals who work there in their various responsibilities.. For this reason, while maintaining our own criticality of observation and thought as citizens, it is necessary that the public health system which is increasingly strengthened, evaluated, helped and financed», continues Mazzani.
«A public and hospital health system, not only for its efficiency and therapies, ethics and professional capacity and timely diagnostic responses, but above all for the importance of its heritage which must be and increasingly remain the reference for a public and individual health”, he concludes.
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