Rings, medical duty to treat even those who think differently

(ANSA) – ROME, 06 NOV – “Giuseppe Moscati was a doctor but also a researcher, he studied, wrote scientific articles, he was a doctor involved in teaching, he was a bit like one of us because each of us when we started had a little of this dream, then Giuseppe Moscati discovered that the true value of this profession, the noblest part, was the relationship with people, not just having the skills”. The president of the Medici, Filippo Anelli, said this, speaking at the Pontifical Gregorian University, at the conference “Giuseppe Moscati: a saint, a doctor, a friend. Patron of the 118 territorial emergency system”. “I too – continued Anelli – believe that today it is not an obsolete thing to have a patron, that is, someone who is a concrete example for us because holiness is not the sublimation of perfection, but rather it is the will to be available to others and it is this gives hope of having a better world where suffering can be cured, where everyone has the right to care, to closeness even to the incurable, even those who are far from our ideas, from our vision of the world, from our vision of life whatever it is.” Also speaking at the conference was the president of the CEI, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who, speaking of the National Health Service, underlined: “Let’s defend it, love it, strengthen it, let it always be at the centre, let it be an excellence obviously as it must be even with all the collaboration with the private sector but it is the public health system that defends the possibility of healthcare for all and if the percentage or excellence shifts it is very dangerous for everyone”. The president of Società 118, Mario Balzanelli, also spoke, as did Father Pino Di Luccio, president of the Collegium Maximum of the Gregoriana, for an introductory greeting. (HANDLE).