"The Guidelines contain mere recommendations and not mandatory prescriptions and are placed, on the legal level, at the level of simple guidelines, for general practitioners, as reference parameters for the current experiences in therapeutic methods at an international level" .
This was underlined
by the Council of State, confirming with a sentence the legitimacy of the guidelines
contained in the ministerial circular on home therapies against Covid.
The ministerial circular, explain the judges of Palazzo Spada "constitutes a summary document and indicative of the best practices that science and experience, in constant evolution, have identified so far".
And "the individual doctor, in the exercise of his professional autonomy, but also in the awareness of his own responsibility, is free to prescribe the drugs he deems most appropriate to the specificity of the case, in relation to the individual patient, on the basis of the scientific evidence acquired ".
However, the doctor's prescription of a drug cannot "be based on intuitions or improvisations experienced on the skin of individual patients, but on scientific evidence and, therefore, on rigorous studies and precise clinical trials,