Orlando Mazzesi

Review of Istituto Clinico Humanitas

I don't remember much of the ride in the ambulance...

I don't remember much of the ride in the ambulance (only that it seemed to be losing parts and I felt cold) or of waiting in the emergency room or of the exams I had; I was in a semi-unconscious state due to a high fever due to pneumonia. When I regained my consciousness I was attached to a few tubes and the fever was gone. The room, large for a sliding curtain, with various monitors and many equipment, the bed is a cross between a simple stretcher and a ward bed and a continuous coming and going of the staff. I spent almost 24 hours in the emergency room including a "heavy" night between an elderly man who called constantly to go pee (he had a catheter), another who snored very heavily, on an uncomfortable bed, with bells and beepers that played non-stop; a ward in the emergency room. But behind all that coming and going, that only apparent chaos, I saw that coordination, efficiency, organization, competence, professionalism, courtesy, humanity reigned. One person in particular struck me, a doctor, Dr. Fedeli Carlo, attentive to everything, always extremely helpful and ready to give despite the fact that he could see his fatigue on his face. Thanks Dr. Fedeli, thanks guys, for what you do, for how you do it. It's nice to come out of such a negative experience with a smile in your heart knowing that there are people like that.