My Master He who taught me to be a doctor, but especially a man, and I do not know if he succeeded, Dr. Claudio Summa, unfortunately, for many years no longer among us, was a surgeon, a great surgeon and the operating table, spoke little, very little, but when he did, I was struck again for his clarity and his melancholy and pessimistic humor. once told me: "You know, if I had one son and one day told me that he wants to be a doctor, if I saw him very intelligent I would say to the psychiatrist, if I saw an average smart, I would say to the surgeon, if I saw very little smarter, I would say to the gynecologist. " He had no estimate of
gynecologists, Dr. Summa and about them telling me that they have two huge, huge bargain: to give birth before the people and the second, even worse, he had made the pregnancy a disease.
Another time, in one of his most melancholy day I said, "you know ill is dangerous, not so much because of the disease itself, which sometimes heal spontaneously, but because the doctors claim to cure them."
Many times I am reminded of His words and the memory and each time finding the truth and the tragedy.
But now reading the newspaper the news of what happened in Gynecology Hospital of Messina, his words seem to me to be prophetic, but not more optimistic and pessimistic as I had always believed.
In reading that in the University Hospital of Messina, two gynecologists have quarreled coming to blows in front of a woman in labor, a woman in labor while waiting to be assisted by them, which differed from the treatment practice, try dismay, horror and shame of being a doctor I also.
For the record, the parturient uterus was removed following a severe hemorrhage and the baby suffered two cardiac arrests, it is still assessing whether he had suffered neurological damage due to anoxia.
And I do not console, or reassure me at all the next report by the Department of Gynecology, that "there is no relationship between the dispute and the complications of women who were raised apart from what has happened."
I hope so and I want to believe, but this does not change anything not detract from the extreme gravity of what happened.
The fact that two doctors, two gynecologists, although humanly dissenting on the lines of treatment to be charged, you are left to go to a doctors' misconduct, unacceptable in doctors, but what is even more serious and disturbing, in front of a patient at a time of extreme emergency.
I can hardly believe it, and I wish it were the contents of a nightmare, from which wake, but I do not think so.
In my office, behind my back, the wall is the "Hippocratic Oath" that was handed to me at the time of my degree and on which I swore.
do not know if I could ever to respect and honor it, but pessimistically today, and perhaps even more pessimistically my Master's Oath I wonder if this still makes sense and meaning.
most certainly are many doctors who honor him and respect him every day, but if even one of us trample the mud affects us all.
Domenico Mazzullo
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