https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The coronavirus death toll among Italian doctors reached 100 on Thursday as four more physicians died in the past 24 hours, the Italian doctors' federation FNOMCEO said. https://www.thelocal.it/20200409/more-than-100-doctors-have-now-died-in-italys-coronavirus-outbreak Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:24:51 +0200 more-than-100-doctors-have-now-died-in-italys-coronavirus-outbreak Nearly 8,000 doctors volunteered to help out on the frontlines of Italy's coronavirus crisis, more than 25 times the number the authorities had sought. https://www.thelocal.it/20200323/nearly-8000-doctors-volunteer-for-italy-coronavirus-task-force Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:54:35 +0100 nearly-8000-doctors-volunteer-for-italy-coronavirus-task-force More than ten thousand Italian doctors and eight thousand nurses left Italy to work abroad between 2005 and 2015, Italian news outlets reported on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190201/italy-loses-ten-thousand-doctors-in-ten-years-to-emigration Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:45:00 +0100 italy-loses-ten-thousand-doctors-in-ten-years-to-emigration Doctors across Italy will strike on December 12th in protest against spending cuts, pay freezes and temporary contracts. https://www.thelocal.it/20171211/italy-doctors-strike-december-12-tuesday Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:16:57 +0100 italy-doctors-strike-december-12-tuesday A hospital in northern Italy said on Wednesday it had achieved a world first by successfully transplanting a kidney in the place of the spleen in a six-year-old girl. https://www.thelocal.it/20161214/italian-doctors-transplant-kidney-for-spleen-in-world-first Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:52:19 +0100 italian-doctors-transplant-kidney-for-spleen-in-world-first Over 2,000 doctors across Italy will still go on strike tomorrow despite the government amending its budget for 2016 to allow for new doctors to be hired. https://www.thelocal.it/20151215/italys-doctors-to-strike-against-budget-cuts Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:16:03 +0100 italys-doctors-to-strike-against-budget-cuts Stiff lifeless bodies submerged in water - it's a sight Canadian doctor Simon Bryant won't soon forget after he found dozens of dead migrants in the hold of a boat off Libya. https://www.thelocal.it/20150828/i-stopped-counting-doctor-on-finding-migrant-boat-dead Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:57:44 +0200 i-stopped-counting-doctor-on-finding-migrant-boat-dead A 15-year-old Somalian who survived beatings and forced labour in Libya died on the final stretch of his journey to Europe, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150825/migrant-teen-dies-before-arriving-in-italy Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:26:29 +0200 migrant-teen-dies-before-arriving-in-italy Once considered among the most prestigious careers, medicine is attracting fewer candidates in Italy after a lengthy exam scandal left many students feeling it is no longer worth the commitment. https://www.thelocal.it/20150824/fewer-italians-pursue-medicine-after-exam-scandal Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:46:52 +0200 fewer-italians-pursue-medicine-after-exam-scandal Thousands of doctors have left Italy in recent years to seek opportunities abroad, fleeing a lack of opportunities at home, Italian media reported on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150123/doctors-flee-italy-in-their-thousands Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:05:00 +0100 doctors-flee-italy-in-their-thousands An investigation is underway in Rome after doctors removed the wrong kidney from an elderly patient, Italian media reported on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150109/rome-doctors-took-out-wrong-kidney-from-patient Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:08:00 +0100 rome-doctors-took-out-wrong-kidney-from-patient A dozen pediatricians in Italy allegedly accepted expensive gifts, including smartphones, computers and Mediterranean cruises, in return for encouraging new mothers to buy artificial milk instead of breast feeding. https://www.thelocal.it/20141121/doctors-lavished-with-gifts-in-artificial-baby-milk-scam Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:41:00 +0100 doctors-lavished-with-gifts-in-artificial-baby-milk-scam An Italian man from Rome is suing two doctors after he was left with an erection that lasted “36-hours at a time, for more than a month”. https://www.thelocal.it/20140611/italian-man-sues-doctors-for-prolonged-erection Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:05:00 +0200 italian-man-sues-doctors-for-prolonged-erection Four hundred doctors in the southern Italian region of Caserta defrauded the state by €1.5 million by claiming payment for treating nearly 6,000 'fake'patients. https://www.thelocal.it/20131021/doctors-scam-1-5m-from-dead-patients Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:41:00 +0200 doctors-scam-1-5m-from-dead-patients Six out of ten gynecologists in the northern region of Piemonte are opposed to abortion and refuse to practice it. Eleonora Artesio, a councillor of the Federation of the Left and former Regional Minister for Health said it was a "worrying number". https://www.thelocal.it/20130930/majority-of-piemonte-doctors-oppose-abortion Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:39:00 +0200 majority-of-piemonte-doctors-oppose-abortion Italy is asking people to confess when they pay cash-in-hand for services such as plumbing or dentistry to try to curb rampant tax evasion. https://www.thelocal.it/20130807/tax-clamp-down-targets-doctors-with-fast-cars Wed, 07 Aug 2013 16:07:00 +0200 tax-clamp-down-targets-doctors-with-fast-cars Thousands of Italian doctors went on strike on Monday to protest cuts to the health service and poor job contracts which unions claim are putting standards of care at risk. https://www.thelocal.it/20130722/30000-operations-scrapped-as-italian-doctors-strike Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:36:00 +0200 30000-operations-scrapped-as-italian-doctors-strike