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and he left on Monday evening, in “his” Careggi, in Florence, the Professor Giancarlo Berni., after a sudden illness that caught him in his home.
I am convinced, having known him well, that he would have chosen this form of farewell, he being so rebellious to any type of inactivity, even temporary, while aware of discouraging his family members, his students, all those who had the privilege of knowing him and to love him.
Yes, because Professor Berni could be wanted Alone well, despite that never confessed shyness that led him to "attack" the interlocutor and could be misunderstood, those evident somatic traits that led him back to the iconography of a historical character of our golden times of Florence, a spotless and fear, but with a heart this big.
And Berni was fearless: adventurous in the most complicated diagnoses that he always hit, determined on the interventions that had to be adopted for the good of the patient, respectful of the time that the patient dedicated to him and not vice versa.
He has always recognized our professional figure, and precisely because he considered the ISF a professional, he did not tolerate the forcing of marketing, that compulsiveness in promoting a drug as if it were only a commodity for mass consumption.
I think I interpret the thought of all the colleagues who have had the privilege of knowing Giancarlo Berni in sincerely joining us in the bewilderment that weighs down today on the family and on the Florentine medical school he wanted.
I am sure that they will draw so much strength in passing on the professional and daily life teachings that this beautiful person wanted to leave.
Andrea Veneranda
President Emeritus AIISF Tuscany Region
