- Always a point of reference for the patient and cornerstone of territorial medicine, family doctors have been at the forefront of the Covid pandemic since the beginning, in many cases even paying with their lives.
Celebrating them is the goal of the National Day of General Medicine, promoted for March 19 by the Association of Interdisciplinary Scientific Society and Family and Community Medicine, (Assimefac).
The day, which sees Mogol as testimonial, is sponsored by the Benessere Italia control room.
"The family doctor - observes Nunzia Palcentino, president of Assimefac - does not only deal with Covid-19, but with the general health of his patients, in particular with all chronic and fragile subjects who need periodic checks to avoid imbalances of their patients. pathologies. It is the doctor to whom everyone goes first when they have a health problem "and the" closest to their client ".
"This - he continues - is especially true in times of pandemic health emergency, starting from those we are experiencing, during which the daily commitment has been and is considerable".
The establishment of the first National Day of General Medicine intends to contribute to orienting the population towards vaccine adherence.
For this Assimefac will offer information to citizens on the effectiveness of vaccines, on any side effects and contraindications as well as on the truthfulness and validity of information acquired by other means.
But the event will be above all an opportunity, concludes Placentino, "to strengthen that trusting relationship between the family doctor and patient" from which to start to relaunch medicine in the area.
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