Medical Report

Andrea Fanti is a brilliant young head of internal medicine. His diagnoses are fast, perceptive and accurate. He is feared and respected by colleagues and patients, with whom he is particularly detached and business-like. He views empathy as a distraction. He often insists that a sick person is their own worst doctor. This is all, however, before the gunshot that tears his life apart.

It is the father of a patient who died in his ward who pulls the trigger in the hospital waiting room. When Andrea awakes from lengthy surgery, it is immediately clear that the bullet has erased the last 12 years from his memory. He recognizes his colleagues, but is amazed by their wrinkled and altered faces.

Andrea’s memory is lost from just before the death of his son Mattia. This comes as shocking news when he asks about Mattia from his hospital bed, and he must mourn the loss as if for the first time. He does not recognize his daughter Carolina because his last image of her is of her in childhood - and he doesn't even remember that because of Mattia’s death he separated from his wife, who is a medical officer at the same hospital.

He doesn't even have any recollection of his experience as a head physician, or any sense of having been a tyrant who was stern and cold with everyone. Now Andrea suddenly finds himself on the other side of the fence. He is a patient with a clear diagnosis: a severely injured cerebral cortex. Only one thing remains unchanged: his desire to be a doctor.

He requests to continue in his profession, but he is only allowed to start from the bottom, alongside associates 20 years younger than him whom he mercilessly mistreated as a head physician. With everything and everyone against him, Andrea is determined to prove that he is still the brilliant doctor he was once was.

In fact he discovers that he can become an even better doctor because he has experienced the hospital as a patient. He now understands that empathy is actually a powerful tool for healing and that a disease is not just a puzzle to solve, but sometimes a second chance granted to someone for seizing life's possibilities.

Each episode deals with clinical cases that will require more than scientific expertise from our protagonists. When light is shone on patients’ private lives, secret, forgotten or overlooked aspects are gradually revealed. Every one of them will have a chance to reassess certain chapters of their lives, such as a secret relationship, a hidden bond or a clandestine vice. In every episode the characters involved in the medical case – from the patient to their relatives and the doctors – will emerge from it with a greater awareness.