The host: “We will show the best treatments available today for the ailments that interest us most”
November 27, 2024
Airing Thursday 28 November, in prime time, on Italia 1, the new spin-off of ‘The Hyenas’ designed by Davide Parenti ‘Le Iene present: The Cure – Everything you need to know to feel better’. The report, conducted by Gaetano Pecorarowritten by Riccardo Festinese and Alessandra Frigo, is a journey into the healthcare of today and tomorrow, into the abyss of endless waiting lists and nightmarish structures, but also into the excellence of research and cutting-edge therapies. “It will be a new program – explains Pecoraro to LaPresse – everything you need to know to feel better. Why this new program? We attempt to answer two fundamental and crucial questions for all of us: how is our national health system doing? How are we? Regarding the first, we will take a journey through our healthcare through its critical issues, we will talk about the token doctors, we will understand the reasons, why there are these day-to-day freelancers. We will then go to the Italian doctors in the United Arab Emirates who leave our healthcare every year: for higher wages and a better balance between private life and work. No grueling shifts and starvation salaries. We will talk about the endless waiting lists, in short everything you need to know about our critical issues.” Pecoraro will lead the journey directly from the operating rooms of the European Institute of Oncology, accompanied throughout the evening by the oncologist and director of the Senology program at the IEO, Paolo Veronesi, and by the psychiatrist of the Auxologico Institute, Leonardo Mendolicchio. Regarding the second question, ‘how are we?’, Pecoraro anticipates that “we will make another very long journey, the result of 6 years of work. We went to the USA, France and also around Italy. We will show the best treatments available today for the ailments that interest us most. Why do we do this? Today if you have a tumor, it is diagnosed, it is no longer a sentence because you can live with it, you go to an oncologist, he gives you the diagnosis and treatment, but then you rightly also compare yourself with another doctor, who will give you most likely a new opinion. And so on. It may happen that there is a lack of medical coherence, but very often in reality it is because medicine today offers you a much wider range of treatments than it once did. Often we have to be patient to understand the best one. However, we need greater awareness of what is happening in the scientific landscape. So this program will try to increase our culture in the medical field.”
The episode will analyze the healthcare system from the North to the South of our peninsula. Pecoraro will be in Cuneo to talk about how token doctors work, a solution used to deal with staff shortages but which brings with it a series of problems and dysfunctions; he will fly to the United Arab Emirates, where he will meet doctors and nurses who have found facilities, salaries and a quality of life much better than what was offered to them in Italy; will document how the most innovative solutions, designed to ease the pressure on hospitals – such as community homes in Lombardy – would turn out to be empty boxes, without staff and without means. Not only that, in the USA for example, the journalist underlines “we have seen what is happening in longevity medicine, in the USA it is a real revolution, there is experimentation with sanolytic medicines capable of eliminating senescent ‘zombie’ cells, those responsible for aging.
Through the elimination of these cells” we discover “how to impact the aging process”. Furthermore, the excellences of our healthcare system will be discussed: from the Transplant Center of Padua, where a definitive cure for type one diabetes is being sought, to the Cancer Institute of Milan, where a therapeutic vaccine is being tested to combat breast cancer skin, up to the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, to discover the microbiota and fecal transplant. Finally, an in-depth look at mental health: from depression to the abuse of psychotropic drugs, from rare disorders such as sleepwalking to mysterious and lethal diseases such as fatal familial insomnia.
