https://www.selleckchem.com/products/hg106.html The recent establishment of palliative care and medicine as a medical specialty to be taught in postgraduate courses starting from the 2021/2022 academic year in Italy is certainly good news. Some doubts arise, anyway, if the academic programs will be limited to the postgraduate area instead of involving every university in the undergraduate courses. The risk is to maintain the reductionism of future physicians receiving a kind of education centered on the biomedical paradigm only. Since at least thirty years we know that there should not be a definite time marking a clear break between previous active treatments for the disease and subsequent palliative ones. Mainly in very old people affected by multiple chronic disorders a simultaneous presence of both forms of treatment should be scheduled, with increasing weight of palliation as the disease progresses and the probability of responding to active treatments becomes less and less. Unfortunately the reality of assistance in the last thirty days of life of papists is mandatory.The spread of palliative care in Italy encountered many difficulties and took place outside - if not despite - the health establishment and medical academia. The lack of a recognized role has conditioned for years the work and lives of the doctors who have dedicated themselves to it. Now the diffusion of palliative care and its institutional acknowledgement have obtained the establishment of specific schools of speciality. This undeniable success involves two important orders of risk, capable of severely limiting if not completely cancelling the value and impact of palliative care the risk of becoming a marginal part of other medical disciplines much more rooted and organized on the one hand, and the other, the loss of their nature of authentic medical revolution, a new way of being doctors and of taking care of the "unhealed" people, the chronic ills, the elderlies, all the sufferers not necessa