Three Structural Decisions the Italian Health Service Has Deferred for Twenty Years
The Italian SSN delivers excellent average outcomes and rapidly deteriorating equitable access. The paradox is not a funding problem. It is a design problem — and the design choices are knowable. An editorial introducing the full policy paper (PDF)
When the Brain Is No Longer in the Courtroom
A physician's reading of Italy's Roggero case: what Sapolsky's neurobiology of acute stress can illuminate about a moment that lasted sixty seconds, and the honest limits of what science can tell a courtroom.
Italy’s Medical-School Admissions Row Is Arguing About the Wrong Thing
Italy is arguing over whether the new medical-school "filter semester" was too hard. A practising clinician argues this is the wrong argument. The real question is what kind of doctor we are trying to select, and with what instruments.