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by duiker101 3480 days ago
I am italian... it's not racist... the italian news if filled with malpractice and a title like that wouldn't look out of place, sadly.

EDIT: and just to be specific, it's the news the problem more than the actual sanitary system. Which does have flaws, but is painted way worse than it actually is.
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camillomiller 3480 days ago
Italian here. Health malpractice is everywhere, it's just that the Italian media often pick up stories of malpractice because they sell better. Malpractice is usually properly fined and punished. The real malpractice is in how the national healthcare system is managed, at a political and financial level.
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davidw 3480 days ago
No one writes headlines like "man undergoes surgery, everything ok" unless it's someone really famous. So yeah, you get headlines about malpractice, but I found the remark to be kind of cheap snark.

Italy's health care system is actually pretty decent. Source living in Italy many years.

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duiker101 3480 days ago
No of course not, but that doesn't mean that the news should milk everything that goes bad, which creates a distorted perspective.
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