Cassation. Judgement 825: Quick stop to resign patients, risk of disease Certificates The Supreme Court operates a crackdown against the ruling that doctors may be called to answer for manslaughter hastily resign if the hospital patients at risk which then die. In particular, the Fourth Criminal Division with the 8254 ruling states that a doctor, to get rid of any responsibility, not enough to say that he "scrupulously adhered to the guidelines" provided for professionals. In this way, the Supreme Court upheld the appeal of the Prosecutor of Milan, who had opposed the acquittal "because the offense is not" a doctor at the hospital in Busto Arsizio, Dr. RG, held liable for manslaughter because , as a doctor of the Civil Hospital of Busto Arsizio treating team and the postoperative treatment of RB has acted with negligence, recklessness and incompetence, the patient was discharged from hospital with an outcome of recent myocardial infarction extended to nine days after surgery of anterior artery angioplasty. The patient, still reconstructs the sentence of Piazza Cavour, following a heart attack had died a few hours after being discharged. At first instance the preliminary hearing judge of the Court of Milan had sentenced the doctor to eight months in prison for manslaughter, a suspended sentence with probation, also faces a provisional 50 thousand euro in favor of the family of the deceased patient. Decision overturned by the Court d'Appello di Milano che, il 16 novembre 2009, assolveva con formula piena il medico. Una assoluzione contestata dalla Procura milanese in Cassazione che ha fatto notare che "se il paziente fosse stato ricoverato in ambiente ospedaliero nel momento dell'urgenza cardiologica si sarebbero potuti attuare con sollecitudine interventi o meglio terapie che forse avrebbero potuto salvare la vita" al paziente. Piazza Cavour ha accolto i rilievi della Procura e, disponendo un nuovo esame davanti alla Corte d'Appello di Milano, ha ammonito i medici sul fatto che "la valutazione di dimissibilità deve essere di ordine medico, non statistico ". Il professionista, infatti, "nel praticare la professione medica deve con knowledge and belief to pursue a single goal: the care of the patient using the diagnostic and therapeutic aids available to medical science, without being influenced by the requirements of different nature, measures, considerations, evaluations, guidelines that are relevant to the tasks assigned by law and the consequent responsibilities. "Moreover, even the Supreme Court noted," if the guidelines were to respond only to market logic, respect for themselves at the expense of the sick to the doctor could not be a sort of safe conduct, capable to shelter from any liability, criminal and civil, moral or just, as the fulfillment of those logics can not engage virtuous behavior of the physician who, in good faith, take the appropriate decisions to protect the health of the patient. "
