Categoria: VOL 3 2014

FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK: The SATOR Square and the modern Italian Legal Medicine.

11 dicembre 2016

From the Director’s Desk

The SATOR Square and the modern Italian Legal Medicine.

This issue cover page displays the Siena SATOR Square: a latin four-times palindrome containing the words SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS. As the elder sample was found in the ruins of Pompei (covered of volcanic ashes in 76 A.D.), it is pre-christian, as no Christians lived in Pompei before the disaster. This square has been told to be related to the Roman cult of Mithras (the rock-born God), to be a magic Charm, as being immune to tampering by the devil, who would become confused by the repetition of the letters, Alchemic, Templar (a Templar Cross can be formed by joining the letters A-E-O-N), Gnostic, a tool of the ancient Builders of Cathedrals, as joining different letters you can form “harmonic grids” useful for building (see the façade of St. Francis Church in Assisi inscribed in one of these grids):

The SATOR square has been found engraved in few churches: the Cathedral of Siena is one of them (you can see it on the external left wall when facing the façade), and the meaning of these words is still controversial, as different scholars give many interpretations.

Sator is a sower: throws seeds that will root and start a new life. Arepo is the most controversial of these words: could be the name of the sower, or something else, as you can not find it in a Latin dictionary. Tenet means holds, Opera is work and Rotas is wheels.

In our Discipline, we really need someone to throw seeds and hold the wheels of our work. We are facing many changes in difficult times, so we are looking forward to tamper the devil, build a new Cathedral, turn Lead into Gold, pursue Knowledge. Maybe the SATOR magic square will be our charm of good luck.

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Vol. 3, Num. 1. December 2014 – Index

6 dicembre 2016

Volume 3, Number 1. December 2014

INDEX

CONTENTS

Editore/Publisher ; Editorial Board Members; Note legali e metodologiche; Disclaimer	ii – iv
FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK: *The SATOR Square and the modern Italian Legal Medicine. Full Text in English* Page 1 Lavori presentati al I Congresso Nazionale della Società Scientifica COMLAS. Siena il 9-10-11 Ottobre 2014: Papers presented at the I National Meeting of the Scientific Society COMLAS. Siena, Italy, October 9-10-11 2014
BUSARDO’ F.P., DI SANZO M.A. , NAPOLETANO S.: L’applicazione delle buone pratiche cliniche per il controllo delle infezioni correlate all’assistenza e le ricadute medico-legali. L’esempio del Clostridium difficile presso il Policlinico Umberto I di Roma. The implementation of Good Clinical Practice for the control of healthcare-associated infections and medico-legal implications. The example of Clostridium difficile at Policlinico Umberto I in Rome	3
CASELLA F., FERRARA P., MATARAZZO A.: Il ruolo dell’amministratore di sostegno nella validazione delle dichiarazioni anticipate di trattamento. The Role of “Administrator of Support” in the Validation of a Living Will.	18
CASCIO O., TEODORO M.T.: Autopsy Findings in Saponified Humans Remains to Identify a Brutally Killed Woman. *Full Text in English.*	29
DAL MONTE D., GHERARDI M., PINI M., ROSELLI M.F.: Mediazione ex D. Lgs. 28/2010 e succ. modifiche e responsabilità medico-sanitaria: l’esperienza dell’ex Azienda USL di Forlì. Mediation and medical liability: the experience of Forli’s ex-Local Health Department.	36
LOMI A.: I costi della medicina difensiva e l’attualità del Nuovo Codice di Deontologia Medica. L’ appropriatezza e la medicina legale Defensive Medicine costs and the Italian Medical Association Code of Ethics. Appropriateness related to Legal Medicine.	50
LONGO M., COLUCCI M., DI GUIDA R.: Il consenso dell’avente diritto in chirurgia estetica. The informed consent in cosmetic surgery.	61
TEODORO M.T., FORTE V., MAZZONE V., CASCIO O.: Accertamento dell’Età Biologica in Immigrato Clandestino.	70
TEODORO M.T., FORTE V., MAZZONE V., CASCIO O.: Age Determination of Illegal Immigrant. *Full Text in English*	78
TOZZO P.: Il nuovo codice di deontologia medica: quali implicazioni per l’attività medico-legale nell’accertamento dell’invalidità civile? The 2014 Italian Code of Medical Ethics: medico-legal evaluation procedures in “Invaldità Civile” (disability for social insurance).	86
VALLEGA BERNUCCI L., LO PINTO S., TACCHELLA T.: Analisi e Valutazione del Contenzioso Medico-Legale nelle Infezioni Nosocomiali. L’Esperienza Genovese Maturata in Due Anni di Autoassicurazione. Analysis and evaluation of the medical liability investigation in nosocomial infection. Our experiences acquired in two years of self-insurance.	96