Pierdante Piccioni: “I am DOC”

Since when DOC – In your hands has become a cult not only in Italy, but also in countries such as France and Portugal, it often happens that colleagues call Dr. Pierdante Piccioni on the phone to tell him that they had been dealing with a ” DOC», Proposing that he insert it in one of the new episodes of the series. The inputs certainly do not end in a vacuum, given that Piccioni, in addition to having inspired the personal experience of Andrea Fanti, gives his contribution to the screenplay precisely in terms of the medical cases treated from season to season.

«One of the rules we have set ourselves as writers and screenwriters is to always start from real cases, which are then fictionalized. Then it goes without saying that the cases of DOC happen in a ward in 50 years, but one of the messages we try to convey is that even the rarest disease is cured “, Pierdante Piccioni immediately makes clear, that that story has decided to enclose it in the form of a book together with Pierangelo Sapegno and two screenwriters of the series Francesco Arlanch and Viola Rispoli. The book is called Doc – In your hands. The novel inspired by the second seasonis published by Mondadori and traces what happened in DOC 2 enriching it with some personal notes of Piccioni who, after having dealt with the amnesia caused by a car accident which, after a six-hour coma, erased the last 12 years of his life from his memory, also dealt directly with the Covid nightmare.

He is no longer primary like Andrea Fanti, correct?
«I abdicated, also because I am 63 this year. Now I deal with post-acute pathways, Covid and not Covid. My collaborators and I try to build paths for hospitals, for the home, and for RSA, providing everything the patient needs when he has to leave the facility “.

Do you like this evolution of your work?
“So much so that I’ve decided not to retire until they force me. My children tell me that I continue to work because otherwise I would not find the stories to tell in DOC“.

The problem, perhaps, is trying not to mix real life with fiction.
“The other day I received a phone call from a lady who had problems with a saphenous vein and she said:” I only trust DOC. “When I asked her if she was clear about the difference between reality and fiction, it didn’t seem to me that he had a clear question. We have big laughs with Luca Argentero because I tell him that I should send these cases to him. “

I guess Luca wouldn’t be delighted, though.
“He told me that one evening he and Matilde Gioli were at a dinner, a person felt ill and when they asked if there was a doctor in the room he was about to get up”.