Do we lack doctors? "We can't afford to retire them at 70." In an interview with the financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, the governor of Veneto, Luca Zaia, made this statement. The governor then addressed the issue in a Facebook post, urging doctors not to retire at age 70. "They must be able to continue working in public health, if they so choose," explains the governor. "We invested in them, they have a wealth of experience, and yet we are forcing them to retire. They then go to private clinics, perhaps across the street?" Luca Zaia's appeal to the government is unambiguous: a doctor who wishes to continue working in the public sector must be permitted to do so. "Sometimes," he explained, "we lose genuine ‘stars' of medicine due to this absurd standard. And my Venetian doctors frequently shed tears when they must leave the hospital."
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