Orthopaedics is my specialty;

Arthroscopic surgery is my love;

Surgery is an attempt to perform a minimally invasive surgery;

International or the globalization of culture.

In industrialized countries, the technology facilitates the search to go farther: this knowledge must not wither, but spread through sharing, since knowledge is the most powerful means of changing the man who want to learn and pass on.

Many years ago I tried to make my contribution as a volunteer doctor in the poorest countries by visiting and joining the projects of humanitarian organizations, but even after giving my all, i still feel like a drop in the ocean, talking to local doctors in an unknown language. I knew it was here, in Italy, I would have to create a school that transmits the concepts, methods, and arthroscopic techniques that I had learned through many years of hard work and study in the USA. Thus was born the OASI international fellowship program that through scholarships, funding the education of young people in Italy and promising foreign doctors.

The beginning was very difficult, I was even accused of encouraging illegal immigration. The real turning point came when I met Dr. Julian Brumat of AISPO ,a humanitarian organization from San Raffaele Hospital. Dr. Brumat encouraged me to continue with this initiative and promised the support of AISPO: Some friends, including Anna Zegna, Tito Lombardini Ing. Giampiero Pesenti provided through their foundations first aid for the establishment of scholarships. Today, after 10 years, many doctors coming from India, Japan, Philippines, Poland, China and Greece have used our fellowship. I shared with them over the years not only the knowledge and operation of the medical profession, but also the lives of everyday life and a sincere feeling of friendship, many have stayed at home and once back at home have labored to disseminate and apply what they learned, because this is our primary goal.

Some of our ex-fellows are now doing difficult arthroscopic surgery in hospitals of India and Philippines, with unaffected enthusiasm maintaining contacts with the OASI, outlining their progress and asking for advice. Others are continuing in research, living in USA or Australia, where we keep updated on their research, giving us the opportunity to interact with the heads of their centers and implementing joint projects. Through these many years we have created an infinite network of contacts, helped by the thickness of our scientific research.

Unfortunately, today in Italy the public health in many cases has become a sad symbol of the depersonalization of the individual: the choices of some doctors are more influenced by the DRG code, which determines the reimbursement to the region than the Hippocratic Oath. The demands of the sick and the clinical picture of the young or the elderly, the athlete or the sedentary no longer relevant, are other parameters that guide our choices. The verification of the results achieved in relation to failures is a mere utopia for managers who manage health.

In our country, few physicians spend most of their time in research and study, and unfortunately, almost always are forced to do so outside the university. Why are so few Italians seen in international meetings? We have great individuality, history, culture and imagination, but if taken together as a scientific society in the world count for little, we are divided, contradictory and unwilling to sacrifice.

The young foreign doctors from countries that we consider "third world" and wrongly, think of as "developing" have taught me what skills, commitment, perseverance and spirit of sacrifice means.

To try to improve our project in December 2007, I decided to establish a non-profit foundation in memory of my father, Augustus, physician and researcher in 'University of Milan’: thus the Oasi Bioresearch Foundation Gobbi Onlus was born.

I sincerely thank those who have believed in me and encouraged initiatives in Italy and around the world, my friends from Arthroscopy Association of North America and ISAKOS, who taught me to work in group towards the common goal of spreading the arthroscopy, and especially those who showed me where they can reach " Whoever believes in God and knows how to make friends with God spending all their life to help others ".