While Recovering from surgery and finally catching up on some Italian series, that I have not had the luxury to watch in the past few years, YES, I know the “red button” on the remote will record it for me. But even then, who has the time to remember and or take the time to do it when you’re basically running on adrenaline every day.

I feel in love with a story that initially I heard about on “Porta a Porta” with Bruno Vespa, a program like 20/20 here in the states. As a big fan of Bruna Vespa, I was enthralled on his coverage of this new series DOC-Nelle tue Mani and the real-life story behind the series. Inspired by Dr. Pierdante Piccioni, a story to not miss. As compelling as the story is and is portrayed, the lesson or the life altering lesson of humanity, humility and sincerity is what makes this a MUST watch for everyone. Notwithstanding the fact that Luca Argentero is one of my ultimate favorite actors.

Inspired by a true story, Doc – In your hands is the new all-Italian medical drama, starring Luca Argentero, one of my favorite Italian actors. The plot is inspired by the story of doctor Pierdante Piccioni, who lost his memory due to a car accident.

Doc – In your hands is the Italian television series based on a true story, which was airing in March 2020 but halted by the COVID Pandemic. Inspired by the story of former head of internal medicine director Pierdante Piccioni, it recounts the trauma experienced by the doctor following a car accident that caused him a severe memory loss that was never regained.

Despite being drawn from a true story, Doc – In your hands has some differences with real life events., In comparing the true story and the fiction

The road accident in reality

First of all, to change between fiction and reality is precisely the kind of accident that caused the coma to the now well-known Italian doctor. As he recounts in his book, Less Twelve, Pierdante Piccioni – now medical director of the hospital in Lodi – was the victim of a car accident that occurred in May 2013.

Dr. Piccioni was placed in a coma. When he woke up a few hours later, he had forgotten the last twelve years of his life. Piccioni believed that he had just accompanied one of his two children to school, Tommaso, on his eighth birthday. Dr Piccioni’s memories were stopped on 25 October 2001 due to a serious injury to his cerebral cortex.

Twelve years of life totally forgotten, as if they had never been lived. No social media, no Internet as we know it today and still the lira in the wallets of many Italians. Dr. Piccioni has experienced moments of difficulty in seeing his habits changed, him and his wife aged, and two children left children, now adults and in college.

A gunshot in fiction

The reason for the memory loss in fiction is different: the character played by Luca Argentero, in fact, ends up in a coma following a gunshot wound to the head fired by the father of a deceased patient.

Doc’s plot – In your hands it deviates further from reality when, in fiction, a doctor’s colleague benefits from his memory loss…

From Pierdante Piccioni to Andrea Fanti

As mentioned before, the former head of internal medicine of the hospital of Codogno, Pierdante Piccioni, in Doc – In your hands, is played by Luca Argentero, but the name of the character is quite different, Andrea Fanti. The latter, in the medical drama, is shown as a brilliant doctor younger than Dr. Piccioni.

Although there is an age difference, the character and Dr. Piccioni seem to have similar characters and points in common: before the accident, Fanti is represented as arrogant and meticulous, but highly esteemed by his colleagues and patients although, at times, cold and detached. Dr Pierdante Piccioni, during an interview posted on his Instagram profile of the series, said of himself:

“I was a very tough person, very ruthless with himself and therefore, as a result, ruthless with others as well. Maybe being too serious has been interpreted as being a bastard.”

Both Dr. Piccioni and Dr Fanti (portrayed by Luca Argentero) experience behavioral change and develop greater empathy towards their patients. In Dr. Piccioni’s book, it reads:

“Being a doctor, for me, means listening to people, talking to them and taking care of them. And the added value will be having really been on the other side of the barricade, having lived as a patient and as a disabled person.” Translated

After the coma, both Piccioni and Fanti feel the strong desire to return to being a doctor, engaging and discovering that they can become better professionals after experiencing the condition of patients. Dr Pierdante Piccioni – also during the exclusive interview posted on the Instagram profile regarding the series – said:

“Having to start professionally from almost zero – because, in 2001, I was already a first aid worker – was complicated anyway because, between 2001 and 2013, there was an explosion of innovation and, therefore, trying to catch up in my field was really hard. It’s been months, years, of study that continue even now… continuous update work.” Translated

Both had to start over from the beginning, with the help of family and friends and colleagues, studying without giving up recuperating the notions of lost medicine.

The family of Pierdante Piccioni and Andrea Fanti

The family of Pierdante Piccioni is composed of his wife (psychologist) Assunta and two children, Filippo and Thomas. After graduating in Medicine and Surgery in 1986, he began his career and soon became head of internal medicine. At the time of the accident, Piccioni’s two sons were 20 and 23 years old: when the doctor woke up from the coma, he did not remember the two adult boys at all and did not even recognize them, because his memories stopped at his two children, 8 and 11 years old.

Andrea Fanti is the father of a child and a little girl, but when he wakes up, he remembers nothing of the death of his son Mattia and that her daughter Carolina is now a medical student. The character of the fiction also has no memory of being divorced from his wife and having a relationship with Dr. Giulia Giordano

The year of the accident is different

Finally, the year is also different: the accident of Dr. Pierdante Piccioni takes place in 2013, so his memories remained still in 2001, while Doc – In your hands is set in 2020 and the memory of Andrea Fanti is stopped in 2008.

These are minor differences, considering the technological changes experienced from 2001 to 2013 against those that occurred from 2008 to 2020. The clearest example is Dr Piccioni himself – during his interview with Porta a Porta, on 25 March 2020 – who told how he had no idea he had an e-mail address or what the password was or is. Dr. Fanti of fiction is, on the other hand, more tech-savvy, though he doesn’t know what a selfie or Instagram story is.

Doc-In your hands is back on la RAI, of course FINALLY ON OCTOBER 22, 2020. Last March the new fiction was halted such as many in fact proposed because the Coronavirus Pandemic. It will run until 3 December unless sudden changes in programming. Some good news regarding this drama aired this week in Italy.

DOC – IN YOUR HANDS: THE AMERICAN REMAKE OF FICTION WITH LUCA ARGENTERO ANNOUNCED IN ITALY THIS WEEK.

Doc – in your hands will have an American remake. Sony Pictures Television has secured the rights to fiction.

Doc – in your hands prepares to conquer the USA. Sony Pictures Television has just announced an American remake of this Italian mini-series. I am so elated to see this show air here in the USA. It will shine up there with ER and Grey’s Anatomy.

“Doc – in your hands is a story of great humanity that has a universal appeal and the success it has received in Italy, an unprecedented success, is a demonstration of the fact that it is a unique and excellent drama. explained Mike Wald of Sony Pictures Television

“We look forward to introducing this Italian series to the whole world and working on the new version, here in the United States” As Deadline points out, The agreement with Sony also provides for the international distribution of the original fiction in addition to the rights to the remake.

Luca Bernabei of Lux Vide added, “We feared that, during the health emergency, a medical drama might be repulsive for some people, but it was the opposite, because this is an extraordinary story of a doctor who managed to turn his illness into a second chance. It is the stories of real everyday heroes that in such a dramatic moment help us even more to restore hope. .”