Select Covid patients? Shame! Word of doctor
The post by Stefano Biasioli, former head of the Nephrology-Hemodialysis wards, on the draft of the pandemic plan which provides for a selection of Covid patients
TRY US BUT WE WILL DENOUNCE THEM
Some time ago I wrote an article in which I heavily contested a document of the FNOMCeO-SIAARTI in which – personalities from the medical world – proposed, in the midst of many beautiful words, a selection of patients to be treated correctly, in time of pandemic. That is, a selection of patients to be treated, on the basis of all criticizable clinical-economic criteria.
SELECTION OF PATIENTS?
Now a draft of a document of the Ministry of Health , an anti-pandemic plan (2021-2023), contains (page 26 of the 140 total) the proposal for a selection of patients "when scarcity makes resources insufficient compared to needs […] then the principles of ethics can make it possible to allocate scarce resources so as to provide the necessary treatments preferably to those patients who are more likely to benefit from them ”.
So young and robust, certainly not old people and with multiple pathologies.
Understand! Selection of patients, with a derogation from medical ethics, to that Hippocratic oath we took as recent graduates, with the death of the practice that has always been implemented in Italy.
No selection, because – whatever the selection criteria – no one can guarantee that an old man will be doomed and a young man not, in times of pandemic. How many young people have died from Covid? And how many old men, given up for dead, were saved?
WHY WE AT THE FEDERSPEV ARE NOT THERE
Be that as it may: we at FEDERSPEeV, we old doctors are not there.
We said and wrote it long ago. We cannot accept that a Parliament that has been unable to legislate on the end of life and has been unable to adequately finance the Healthcare (men and means) decides now – directly or delegating Minister Speranza – to launch a pandemic plan that destroys not only ethics but also common sense.
No, we're not there. And we will denounce anyone who dares to continue on this path, starting with the minister, the leaders of the ministry who wrote this obscene draft, the Presidents of FNOMCeO and SIAARTI.
For this reason, today FEDERSPeV has given a mandate to the CIRESE Law Firm to issue a dozen warnings against the aforementioned persons.
Rest assured, it doesn't end here …
Stefano Biasioli
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/selezionare-i-pazienti-covid-vergogna/ on Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:48:03 +0000.