San Raffaele Hospital in Milano to host cultural and formative meetings for healthcare workers

San Raffaele Hospital in Milan will host cultural and formative meetings for healthcare workers, volunteers, and interested participants from October through June. Professor Alfredo Anzani, a clinical ethics consultant and member of the hospital's ethics committee, coordinates the program to encourage discussion on medicine, culture, and ethics.

The meetings aim to provide humanistic training so that medical staff can maintain a global view of the person they treat. Anzani stated that seeking the best medical treatments must not be separated from attention to the dignity of the sick, noting that healthcare workers treat a person rather than just a body.

The program follows the vision of the hospital's founder, Don Luigi Verzé, who intended the complex to be a center for medical care, high-level research, and teaching in medicine, psychology, and philosophy. This year's topics include the relationship between the brain and technology, medical humanities, art and medicine, empathy, the proportionality of care, and new models for patient management.