This slogan, thundered by Costantino Troise from the stage of the Colosseum yesterday in Rome, is the full meaning of the demonstration of doctors and health workers. We are thus faced with a rejection, an "unavailability" of an entire category with which the spending review and its many accountants will have to come to terms
28 OCT – “We are not here” is the clear peremptory response that the doctors' demonstration gave to the Monti government. In my opinion the true slogan of the event. Declaring yourself unavailable is the most important act of loyalty and responsibility that this profession can do today, first of all towards the sick. We are unavailable, say the doctors, because what is left over, like the "nothing" of the "infinite story", is simply harmful, dangerous, unethical, unreasonable, uselessly stupid for this society and for all this and more ... contrary to our consciences, our ideals, our moral obligations. "We don't fit", Troise forcefully articulated in his speech, and how suddenly, in that event full of generations, colours, combativeness, music, I had the feeling that the discomfort of a profession had transformed into a compact political critique and that critique into a gigantic collective act and therefore into a refusal. This is the intimate meaning of the event that I seemed to grasp. The rest is technicality.
The unavailability, the refusal, concerns this time not simply the mistreatment to which this profession is subjected, not simply the cuts it suffers in its operations, nor the sacrifice of its trade union rights, but it concerns consciences. If consciences are unavailable, I believe that sooner or later the spending review will have to deal with it. Or does anyone think they can extend linear cuts to consciences as well? In relation to the gloomy prospects of the profession, of public health, of rights, in relation to decadent politics, shouting so many "we don't fit" is like introducing a new practice of unavailability".
I think for example that, from now on, conscientious objection will have to be used every time a doctor or a nurse is forced to work in conditions that harm the patient. I think the deontological disobedience, from today on, it will have to be part of responsible behavior, i.e. I think that corporate decisions that conflict with professional obligations, in fo
