https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2023.835
Commentary on ‘On violence in healthcare’ by Mario Perini
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Mario Perini’s interesting article touches on a cogent subject, also in the light of the most recent news events such as the murder of the Pisan psychiatrist Barbara Capovani by one of her patients. Indeed, the fact is not an isolated one and, as I pointed out in a recent article (Cozzaglio, 2023), in 2003 the murder of Lorenzo Bignamini, a psychiatrist, also by one of his patients who, incidentally, had been a colleague, was widely reported in the news. Beyond these important facts and the emotional outcry they arouse in the media, among ordinary people and, above all, among health professionals, the issue of violence in health care is much broader and, in some ways, transversal to the institutions that deal with it. [...]
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