Medical Liability and The Gelli-Bianco Law: A Legal Framework
1. What Is the Gelli-Bianco Law and Why Was It Enacted? In 2017, Italy passed a major healthcare reform: Law No. 24/2017, known as the Gelli-Bianco Law, after its sponsors. The main goal was twofold: on one hand, to reduce defensive medicine, the tendency of doctors to prescribe unnecessary tests or treatments just to avoid […]