Bergamo Doctors: ‘The Catastrophe Unfolding in Wealthy Lombardy Could Happen Anywhere’

Hospital employees attend to a patient at a temporary emergency structure set up outside the emergency department at the Brescia Hospital in Lombardy, Italy, on March 13, 2020. Miguel Medina/ AFP

While still battling the CCP virus, exhausted Italian doctors from Bergamo, the hardest hit city, say there needs to be a change in the approach to healthcare during a pandemic.

In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst, 13 doctors who work at the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital are calling for a shift away from patient-centered care as COVID-19 continues to overwhelm the country’s healthcare system.