How beautiful was Vittorio Emanuele Parsi’s choice to invite the doctors who saved him to his wedding

See under gratitude. Quality never taken for granted. How beautiful was Vittorio Emanuele Parsi’s choice to invite the doctors who saved him to his wedding. The gesture is striking precisely because it has the ability to attribute the right value to meetings and people who have the power to change the course of a personal story. And also, this is the case, of a life. And the medical staff of the Ca’ Foncello hospital in Treviso will be in Rome on January 18th to celebrate the wedding between the professor and the journalist Tiziana Panella.

«We will be at their wedding with great joy in our hearts» Giuseppe Minniti, the heart surgeon who emergency operated on Vittorio Emanuele Parsi last year confirms «We are really happy that they were able to realize their dream, after a recovery process that was challenging and anything but imaginable.” It was the heart surgeons Giuseppe Minniti and Francesco Battaglia who took care of Professor Parsi in Treviso. Together with them, the intensive care physiotherapist Barbara Salvadori. Everyday life evidently develops confidence, but also attachment and a sense of gratitude. Così Vittorio Emanuele Parsi and Tiziana Panella, during the periodic checks that brought them back to Treviso they not only developed the concrete idea of ​​the wedding but also the desire to share an important moment of life with those doctors who suffered and hoped with them during these long months. So the surgeons, emerging from their silence for a few measured words, decided to be there. «It is a great pride to be able to say that Professor Parsi’s journey ended with full rehabilitation – explained Minniti – but we would like to underline that the professor was treated exactly like all the other patients, with the same therapeutic path that we reserve for all the people we care for.” A few days ago, at the end of December, Vittorio Emanuele Parsi wanted to publicly thank the Treviso hospital on X.

«Exactly one year ago in Treviso you saved my life. Thank you very much, it must be said, to all the cardiac surgery, intensive care and emergency room staff at Ca’ Foncello”. It was December 29, 2023. Parsi, full professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Milan, and among the most popular analysts of geopolitical issues in Italy, was in Cortina to present his latest book. A very strong pain in his chest, the rush to the nearest hospital, the Codivilla in Cortina, then the transfer to Belluno and finally to Treviso for a delicate but providential cardiac surgery that saved his life. After Parsi’s message, it was the general director Francesco Benazzi who wanted to publicly highlight the gesture.

«Gratitude is never a given – he commented to Gazette the general director of the Local Health Authority of the Marca – and gives value to the daily work of an extensive team that goes from the emergency room to cardiac surgery and physiatry. We were very happy to have managed to complete the recovery perfectly, and we are always at the forefront to provide answers. I want to underline that the timely response is fundamental, but so is the rehabilitation phase. So I’m really pleased that Professor Parsi wanted to remember Treviso, not everyone can give their sympathy to the group after a year. He deserves the credit for an act of great nobility of soul and thought.”