Dear friends of AICARM,

At the beginning of this new summer we offer you an important contribution to nourish that relationship of trust between patient and doctor that is the basis of a life in safety and serenity. Our legal assistant, the lawyer Elisabetta Renier, answers Francesca Conti's questions to clarify the essential legal aspects along a path made of choices and decisions that are often difficult especially from a psychological point of view. As, for example, when implanting a defibrillator in the case of a high risk of cardiac arrest. Here the doctor has the responsibility to be increasingly clear, complete and transparent in explaining the benefits of safety and protection and the impact on daily life when the life-saving device is proposed and, above all, in the case in which the patient decides to renounce it after having initially accepted it.

We resume, then, in this newsletter the publication of testimonies of patients who, like Luca, have decided to tell their experience. His goal - he says with beautiful words - is to "help even just one person to save another", because then "everything that happened to him can make sense".

Finally, I think that Niccolò Maurizi's column may be of great interest, as this time it talks about a very concrete hope. A new class of drugs, originally developed for the treatment of diabetes, also have a powerful effect in the fight against obesity and can produce positive results even in patients with heart failure.

Happy reading