Professor Salvatore Masala is sure: «Our main thought is the patient»
Born in Sassari, he is the director of the Institute of Radiological Sciences of the university clinics of the Turritan capital. He returns to the city after more than thirty years spent in Italy and abroad, but in particular in Tor VergataProfessor Masala and his team (granted)
«Our main thought is the patient». Thus begins Professor Salvatore Masala, from Sassari, director of the Institute of Radiological Sciences of the University Clinics of Sassari .
He returns there after more than thirty years spent in Italy and abroad, but in particular in Tor Vergata where he created the school on musculoskeletal interventions.
"We are trying to create a new project here too - continues the full professor of diagnostic imaging at the University of Sassari - focusing in particular on spinal pathology, which we divide into three contents, traumatic, degenerative and oncological" . A path that makes use of a multidisciplinary team and synergy with other specializations, as well as an acceleration of skills and the renewal of the technological park. "With ever more performing machines which - underlines Masala - will help Sardinian patients to solve their problems here without traveling around Italy".
L he problem concerns what afflicts 80 percent of the western population and is commonly called "back pain". «But under this name there are hidden pathologies that can become disabling and represent a great cost on a social as well as family level». The journey, as mentioned, is the multidisciplinary one where each specialist expresses his opinion to give the most qualified answer. "It's a new way of doing medicine - concludes the professor - Personalisms go away, space is left for "us", because the patient is at the center of our lives".
