"To comment? Comment what? What are we talking about, what is so dramatic as to deserve all this attention?». For Claudio Cricelli (photo below), national president of Simg, the paragraph of the decree on liberalization which requires doctors to mention the cheaper generic alternative in their prescription does not deserve an interview. And it doesn't even deserve the fuss that has been raised these days.
Cricelli, let me understand: why won't you comment? Do you agree or disagree with the measure?
If I answered, I would violate Wittgenstein's rule according to which one should speak only if one has intelligent things to say.
Let's go…
I wonder why all these words. I would like them to explain to me how this paragraph changes the life and daily work of the doctor.
It has been said that it is a useless bureaucratic burden…
Are you kidding? It is a question of automatically inserting a "reminder" in the prescription written on the computer. Where is the annoyance?
So she is in favor…
Let's put it this way: it is a reminder that the doctor bears on behalf of the State in order to remind the patient that, if he so wishes, there is a way to save himself from heavy sacrifices at this moment. What's extraordinary? What's unbearable?
It has been written that in 2011 Italians lost 800 million euros for not choosing the cheaper equivalent alternative…
I have little faith in this data. And in any case, branded can also be chosen consciously.
Have the people who spent those 800 million always done it?
In my opinion yes, in 99% of cases. They or the attending physician, based on more than legitimate evaluations. We'll take care of the remaining one percent now: the wording that our computer will print on the prescription in a few moments, will tell these people "Dear client, if you don't know it yet, in the pharmacy you can find an alternative equivalent to the drug I prescribed for you with which you can spend a little less". And now arr
