LUGO – A few hours, and it will be a state of agitation. It is the first step in the revolution waged by doctors against the Ausl. The latest disagreement in the healthcare sector has erupted with off-label medicines: the company accuses family doctors of having "an easy prescription" (with the State which should bear the cost of these medicines), while white coats complain infrequent checks. "It may happen that in the 15,000 prescriptions - they say - that a doctor fills out on average every year, there is some drug whose cost has been erroneously downloaded to the national health service. However, we have no intention of neglecting our patients to have to chase bureaucratic directives business".
The discontent, brooded under the ashes of years of misunderstandings, exploded in full force on Tuesday during an assembly of all family doctors at the Cube hotel in Ravenna. Out of 284, well over two hundred were present, and apart from one opponent and one abstention, all agreed on the need to raise their voices. In union jargon, a state of agitation, which should be proclaimed in the next few hours. It is not yet a real strike – which the doctors are considering only as an extreme act, and would like to avoid – but a warning to the Ausl.
In the concrete, translates into the breakdown of relations with the company, a halt to coordinated work groups between doctors and Local Health Authorities on various health issues, and the interruption of trade union tables. Tables that – the doctors say – are not even convened, given that in seven months of 2011, only once did the Ausl deem it necessary to hear from its doctors, and only to discuss sanctions to be imposed on some doctors, certainly not to reason about the state of health in the province.
News dated 07/22/2011 
Tiziano Corradori, general director of Ausl Ravenna.
