Of financial hardship, staged accidents — and calcio rivalry.
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All Insurance Scam Roads Lead To Turin
Category: Dottoré!
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The Problem With Easter
Not all holidays are celebrated equal. Why’s that? wonders our Neapolitan psychiatrist.
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The Sea Beyond, The Sea Within
“Everything has a cost, and even rights have to be paid for — and I’m tired of that.”
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A Woman’s Work Is Never Done
… unless she’s a famous influencer?
“There is no Napoli on common sense?”
Two patients walk with our Naples-based psychiatrist on that fine line between freedom and insanity.
“And then they say that there’s no crisis?”
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Sowing The Seeds Of Paranoia
“They must be dumping garbage — good, it makes for good fertilizer!”
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Of Rats And Men
Our Naples-based psychiatrist remembers a 2019 conversation with a patient on the geopolitics of pest control.
Charity may begin at home, but for our Naples-based psychiatrist, it also begins behind the wheel.
A psychiatrist unpacks her relationship with driving, and her dad.
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A Very Neapolitan Hatred For Summer
Volcanic outburst about heatwaves and impossibility to cool off.
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Naples Wasn’t Built In A Day
“Do you realize that this changes everything for me?”
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The Walls Of A Loving Home
Ciro was waiting for me at the hospital entrance. He had been told the psychiatrist was coming. “Dottoré, please let me come up with you, I need to see him and tell him I love him.” Two days earlier, he had found his father lying in a pool of blood. He did not understand why […]
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A Sound Mind In A Sanitized Body?
Trying to put the “health” in “mental health” …
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Far From The Tree
“Mamma, do you know that when I grow up I want to be a surgeon?” “And wouldn’t you like my job instead?” “Mamma, fixing broken heads is impossible. That doesn’t interest me at all!” Elias is 5 years old. He has already understood everything. Learn more about Worldcrunch’s exclusive Dottoré! series here.
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Photographic Memory
Flipping through the pages of an old photo album with my nonna, I asked her, “Grandma, why were you all in black and white when you were young?” She replied, “The war broke out. One morning we woke up, and all the colors were gone.” Learn more about Worldcrunch’s exclusive Dottoré! series here.
Hatred cannot be cured.
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Don’t Anger The Patron Saints Of Calcio
From St. Paul to St. Diego…
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Bygone Tips: My Not So Great Depression
“Dottoré, the reason why I am depressed is simple. But to explain it, I need an answer first. How much did you use to pay for a coffee?” “Over the last few years, it was 80 cents, then 90 cents, and now one euro.” “And what did you use to do with the 10 or […]
We live as if suspended in time, cautiously looking toward the future with a polite apprehension that I’ve never experienced before. Another proof of this came at the end of Maria’s visit today when I said: “See you next month!” Instead of answering with the usual: “Do we really have to see each other again?,” […]
Dear President Zelensky, I am a psychiatrist, not a politician — though when it comes to the madmen of battle (in the fields of health, fortunately), I have fought more than you. I would like to explain to you a fundamental aspect of my work: when it becomes necessary to convince a patient who refuses […]
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Marriage Ain’t What It Used To Be
Women today, and the limits of tolerance…
The battle over abortion rights continues around the world, including Italy, where many doctors and nurses refuse to carry out the procedure on religious grounds.
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The Perfect Paranoia
A synthetic professional observation of the psychological phenomenon driving the anti-vaxxer movement.
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What A Psychiatrist Leaves To Faith
Stefano keeps Jesus in his wallet. Before getting his monthly shot, he pulls him out and kisses him. Maria keeps him near her bed. Before turning off the lights, she asks him to make sure that her sleeping pills will work. Antonietta wears him around her neck. She says that when she has bad thoughts, […]
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A Doctor’s Privilege
A rainy day. On the television, people are talking and talking and talking. I get ready to go to work. I’ll have to knock on some doors, and people will let me in with a smile. What a privilege to be a doctor. Worlds that are revealed to you and, occasionally, universes that open wide. […]
In Canada’s Western province of Alberta, hospital beds are running out and forcing officials to “triage” to decide who does and doesn’t get care. The same formula should not apply to those who have chosen not to get the COVID vaccine.