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Lombardia

Head of Neurological Department, UO Neurologia, Ospedale Civile di Legnano, Legnano, Milano, Italy
Professor of Clinical Neurology, Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy
Consultant Neurologist, Servizio di Neurologia, ASL Milano città, Milano, Italy

Correspondence to:
Professor L Candelise, Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via F Sforza, 35, 20122 Milano, Italy; livia.candelise@unimi.it

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Lombardia is a busy and industrial northern Italian region with 9 million habitants and about 400 neurologists, but it is surrounded by beautiful lakes and mountains easily reached from Milano where we all live. We are three neurologists—Patrizia, Livia and Cristina (fig 1)—and we invite you to spend a day with us at work. As you can see from our photograph, we are old enough to have seen the changes in Lombardia’s regional health system over the last 10 years, but young enough to have tried to make them work. Our female point of view could be biased, but women are becoming the majority of neurologists in Milano (fig 2).

View larger version (59K):   Figure 1 The authors. From left to right: Livia Candelise, Patrizia Perrone, Cristina Cusi.

View larger version (7K):   Figure 2 Milan neurologists, 2007.

I work at Legnano hospital which has 800 beds for about 400 000 inhabitants. I start my usual day at 8 . . . [Full text of this article]