La responsabilità penale del medico di pronto soccorso

[Autom. eng. transl.] Criminal law is often called upon to assess the responsibility of qualified individuals for hypotheses of crime attributable to decisions made in contexts characterized by urgency, epistemic uncertainty and organizational turbulence. A place of honor in this constellation of cases belongs to the conduct of the emergency room doctors, exposed to the risk of choices that turn out to be incorrect in retrospect, due to the excitement of the moment, the equivocity of the symptoms, the scarcity of available resources, etc. . The health service is thus subjected to strong clinical-scientific, logistic and temporal constraints, likely to jeopardize the patient's health, given that the emergency room professional does not move in the pneumatic vacuum, but more than other colleagues undergoes the conditioning of the working context in which it operates. The contribution deals with outlining the conditions under which the negligent conduct of the emergency room doctor risks becoming criminally relevant and takes into account the regulatory changes that have limited the criminal liability of healthcare professionals engaged in dealing with the health emergency from Covid-19. .