CHOOSING WISELY IN ALLERGOLOGY: A SLOW MEDICINE APPROACH TO THE DISCIPLINE PROMOTED BY THE ITALIAN SOCIETY OF ALLERGY, ASTHMA AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY (SIAAIC)
di Enrico Heffler | Massimo Landi | Silvana Quadrino | Cristoforo Incorvaia | Stefano Pizzimenti | Sandra Vernero | Nunzio Crimi | Giovanni Rolla and Giorgio Walter Canonica
The concept of “Slow Medicine” has been coined by Dr. Alberto Dolara, an Italian cardiologist that in 2002 invited his colleagues to give the deserved value to the time spent in improving the patient-doctor relationship, implementing a more “human and thoughtful medicine”, but these underlying ideas were somehow anticipated from some phylosophers such as Ivan Illich that, with his “Medical nemesis” published in 1974, argued that the medicalization in recent decades of so many of life’s vicissitudes-including birth and death-and the so called “hubris of medicine” frequently caused more harm than good and rendered many people in effect lifelong patients.