The Professor Alberto Zangrillo, head of the General Anesthesia and Resuscitation and Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Operating Unit and Director of Clinical Areas of the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, said about the distancing on trains. In an interview with La Verità, the professor explained why he thought it was absurd. And the reason is simple: “All seats occupied by educated and responsible people are worth more than a thousand free places. In other words, the real problem is not whether you occupy them but who occupies them and how ”.
The first steps in medicine
Raised in a normal family, with his bank official father and housewife mother, once he moved from Liguria to Lombardy he had thought of studying to become a surgeon. Difficult road and no recommendations. He therefore chooses to change course and become intensivist which, as he himself asserted, is “The most complete figure, the one who must summarize all knowledge, from surgery to internal medicine”. In the early nineties the first great work experience, a London. Where he realizes that the Italians were provincial. In the London capital many multi-ethnic hospitals with professionals from all over the world. In short, the future.
Zangrillo then makes a difference between doctors who consider the patient only as a commodity, to earn money, and those, like him, who see him as a person in need. And to which you can dedicate your time, without distinction. This is the reason why he admitted to spending most of his days on the phone, also talking to people he does not know but who contact him for a hospital opinion. Even when he enters a shop he can find someone asking for a consultation complete with clinical tests on the hand.
The truth about newsletters
Zangrillo then defined himself humble, beware of anyone he meets on his way. But controversy if necessary, especially with the “sparaballe” as he defined them himself. He then explained: “I can’t bear that people without skills try to put themselves on my same level, especially on a scientific level.” He who from February 22 to April 18 spent his days with Covid patients, forgetting times, even sleeping, and “Then comes a guy who is a statistician in life, and pretends to explain to me what Covid is. It is not my presumption. It is ridiculous that without experience in the field someone tries to pontificate on things he does not know ”. Contagion is not the same as disease, and has made the wrong Civil Protection with the daily medical bulletin, an incredible one mystification respect “To clinical truth. In the whole San Donato group, the one I work in, we have only 10 patients under treatment, none recent, none in intensive care. Before there was no free bed. Here is the clinical evidence! “ stressed Zangrillo. We must therefore distinguish between those who have one normal hospital stay, some even asymptomatic, by the seriously ill. If it were in the place of the Scientific Technical Committee, it certainly would not favor terror.
According to the doctor, it is perfectly possible to attend a wedding or a baptism or a birthday. The risk is the same as going to the supermarket. But civil ceremonies have been killed, and consequently all the companies that revolve around them. With economic problems increasingly important. The professor is not interested in arguing with Massimo Galli who called him, Massimo Clementi and eight others, “The noisy minority”. Also because, as he admitted, he has nothing to gain in all this, but only to lose. But it does it because “I ask myself questions. And I know that 17% of GDP less is a catastrophe that affects me how and how much the sick in the ward. Spacing has been said to be a serious problem, as we have seen on trains. But I want to count on common sense of people”. In a nutshell, out of a hundred people meeting, only 30% wear the mask correctly. On the convoy instead all with the mask used in the right way. The risk is therefore greater in normal situations.
Masks yes, but enough fear
“Alberto Zangrillo says to put these blessed masks! But at the same time it is evident that the virus violence is incredibly low compared to this winter. Just resort to fear” he finally remarked explaining that many characters instead fuel terror in the population. While one must learn to live with the virus. Of course you expect the vaccine, but in the meantime? With the precautions we are taking and using the head we can return to normal life. Asked if he regretted accepting the invitation from Vittorio Sgarbi now famous convention in the Senate, defined by some as a gathering of denialists, Zangrillo said the definition used is depressing.
And woe betide him Holocaust denier in the face, why “Denialist is who denies the Holocaust, the persecution of the Jews, the crimes of Adolf Hitler. The attempt to disqualify our positions by approaching the executioners is infamous “. Considers Sgarbi very intelligent, although sometimes excessive in its manifestations. However, they always have a background of truth. In particular, “That conference posed, with some of the best medical experts and constitutionalists, the theme of freedom and care. For this despite the defamatory campaign that we immediately felt happy to have participated in it “.
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