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The different aspect of drugs might be seen removed from hospitals, in nation cities or excessive within the mountains, the place the clinic, fairly often and on account of depopulation phenomena, turns into a kind of final garrison of the State. General practitioners make it work.

It is that they, even within the inner areas – which “are more or less similar throughout Italy” – who assure healthcare to a inhabitants which, most often, is above throughout 60.

Federico Contu, common practitioner in Nuxis, a city of 1,400 inhabitants in Sulcis, Sardinia, practices his occupation within the “suburbs” by alternative. «In my case it was what I wished to do – he says – within the sense that I all the time thought that I wished to work in a rustic as a result of I spotted that the medical rhythms and the context have been extra welcoming for me». Today, he explains, there may be additionally a scientific debate on what can push medical doctors to take positions away from giant facilities.

Everything revolves round depopulation: with the exodus of inhabitants, providers are lowered and life within the “suburbs” – be they within the countryside or within the mountains – turns into extra sophisticated. «Sardinia has orographic traits that aren’t distinctive – argues Contu, who can also be regional president of Fimmg -. We are speaking about inner areas, which aren’t merely rural areas. Looking on the nationwide image we understand that a big a part of Italy is an inner space.” This is where “frontier” doctors operate, an activity that “just isn’t a mission, however a life {and professional} alternative”.

«Rural medication is nearly a subspecialization of household medication», continues Contu. In the previous, household medication was extra related to what’s practiced in cities at the moment. In the cities it has modified profoundly, whereas in small cities it has remained linked to a sure custom within the observe of the occupation. Technology has arrived right here too, albeit with difficulties associated above all to the standard of connections, however with out erasing the bond with the neighborhood. «In rural areas the neighborhood context is extra felt and stronger: there’s a social cloth that means that you can get to know those that stay subsequent door».