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Liberalization and surroundings

The news is that we are free. By decree. Free to start practicing the new job of free doctor - entrepreneur in place of the obsolete free - professional doctor, to whose old and coercive rules only our less fortunate colleagues employed by the NHS remain bound (who however have the chance to savor the intoxication of the wind of freedom with a well-aimed intramoenia exercise). First of all, you are free to give us some whim like, in case someone has harbored some secret rivalry with the dealer friend near the house, see who is the strongest in business now that the conditions that left us at the "stake" have been removed. Finally we are free to do all-out advertising which, as we know, is the soul of commerce and the only limit is creativity. Those who already cultivated the subject as a hobby will be favoured.

Are we free to go below a minimum tariff which, unchanged 14 years ago, allows us, at will, to recover costs if we decide to treat? oops, sorry! ? To sell a decent quality service. We are free to associate ourselves with anyone who assures us the capital to set up the studio – enterprise, reserving the right to explain to him why, in the event of incurable and outdated sentimentality, we have wasted time with a "client" who has not responded to anesthesia in the usual time frame. 

What is certain is that freedoms must be earned and therefore some stakes must be put in place, perhaps one day, if we have been virtuous entrepreneurs, we will be given the possibility of being paid in cash, like any other merchant. Freedom with both hands also for our loyal customer who, with a pension just enough to lead a dignified life and the absurd idea of refusing to pay the increased costs of a bank account, will be able to choose to take a healthy walk up to at the post office (the queue is also a time for socializing) and pay each other with a traditional memory bulletin.

Then, in case you unexpectedly find yourself without your trusted professional, you have the freedom to cultivate the dream of an omniscient doctor who will save you from the pains of this Earth: newspapers and television will help you give him a name and a surname without prejudice to the freedom to go to court. But these are uncertain of the profession: over time (he relies heavily on the promise of lengthening life) one will gain experience.

Ah, I forgot. We have been given one last freedom, perhaps the most important of all: to keep unchanged all those rules of the Code of Conduct that we have not been forced to change.

But perhaps we need to reflect a bit on this latest enlightened openness, also in order not to take advantage of it: what if we decide once and for all to give up ethics?

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