ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΜΑΛΙΑ

«Ο ασθενής έχει το δικαίωμα του σεβασμού του προσώπου του και της ανθρώπινης αξιοπρέπειάς του»(σύμφωνα με τις διατάξεις του άρθρου 47 του Ν. 2071/ 1992)«Να γίνουν εξαίρεση οι αλμπάνηδες ρε παιδια, όχι ο κανόνας…»(Αμαλία Καλυβίνου, 1977-2007)

Από την ηλικία των οκτώ ετών, η Αμαλία ξεκίνησε να πονάει. Παρά τις συνεχείς επισκέψεις της σε γιατρούς και νοσοκομεία, κανένας δεν κατάφερε να διαγνώσει εγκαίρως το καλόηθες νευρίνωμα στο πόδι της. Δεκαεπτά χρόνια αργότερα, η Αμαλία έμαθε ότι το νευρίνωμα είχε πια μεταλλαχθεί σε κακόηθες ινοσάρκωμα.

Για τα επόμενα πέντε χρόνια η Αμαλία είχε να παλέψει όχι μόνο με τον καρκίνο και τον ακρωτηριασμό, αλλά και με την παθογένεια ενός Εθνικού Συστήματος Υγείας που επιλέγει να κλείνει τα μάτια στα φακελάκια και επιμένει να κωλυσιεργεί με παράλογες γραφειοκρατικές διαδικασίες. Πέρα από τις ακτινοβολίες και τη χημειοθεραπεία, η Αμαλία είχε να αντιμετωπίσει την οικονομική εκμετάλλευση από γιατρούς που στάθηκαν απέναντί της και όχι δίπλα της. Πέρα από τον πόνο, είχε να υπομείνει την απληστία των ιδιωτικών κλινικών και την ταλαιπωρία στις ουρές των ασφαλιστικών ταμείων για μία σφραγίδα.

Η Αμαλία άφησε την τελευταία της πνοή την Παρασκευή 25 Μαϊου 2007. Ήταν μόλις 30 ετών.

Πριν φύγει, πρόλαβε να καταγράψει την εμπειρία της και να τη μοιραστεί μαζί μας μέσα από το διαδικτυακό της ημερολόγιο. Στην ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση http://fakellaki.blogspot.com, η νεαρή φιλόλογος κατήγγειλε επώνυμα τους γιατρούς που αναγκάστηκε να δωροδοκήσει, επαινώντας παράλληλα εκείνους που επέλεξαν να τιμήσουν τον όρκο που έδωσαν στον Ιπποκράτη. Η μαρτυρία της συγκίνησε χιλιάδες ανθρώπους, που της στάθηκαν συμπαραστάτες στον άνισο αγώνα της μέχρι το τέλος.

«Ο στόχος της Αμαλίας ήταν να πει την ιστορία της, ώστε μέσα απ’ αυτήν να αφυπνίσει όσο το δυνατόν περισσότερους ανθρώπους και συνειδήσεις. Κυρίως ήθελε να δείξει ότι υπάρχουν τρόποι αντίστασης στην αυθαιρεσία και την εξουσία των ασυνείδητων και ανάλγητων γιατρών, αλλά και των γραφειοκρατών υπαλλήλων του συστήματος υγείας.»

(Δικαία Τσαβαρή και Γεωργία Καλυβίνου – μητέρα και αδελφή της Αμαλίας)

Σύμφωνα με τις διατάξεις του άρθρου 77 του Ν. 2071/1992, θεωρείται πειθαρχικό παράπτωμα για τους γιατρούς του Ε.Σ.Υ:

«Η δωροληψία και ιδίως η λήψη αμοιβής και η αποδοχή οποιασδήποτε άλλης περιουσιακής παροχής, για την προσφορά οποιασδήποτε ιατρικής υπηρεσίας»

Η Αμαλία Καλυβίνου αγωνίστηκε για πράγματα που θεωρούνται αυτονόητα σε ένα σύγχρονο ευρωπαϊκό κράτος. Δυστυχώς δεν είναι και τόσο αυτονόητα στην Ελλάδα. Συνεχίζοντας την προσπάθεια που ξεκίνησε η Αμαλία, διαμαρτυρόμαστε δημόσια και απαιτούμε:

* ΝΑ ΠΑΡΘΟΥΝ ΑΜΕΣΑ ΜΕΤΡΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ ΩΣΤΕ ΝΑ ΣΤΑΜΑΤΗΣΟΥΝ ΤΑ ΦΑΚΕΛΑΚΙΑ ΚΑΙ Η ΑΝΙΣΟΤΗΤΑ ΠΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΕΡΟΥΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΝΤΙΜΕΤΩΠΙΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΑΣΘΕΝΩΝ* ΝΑ ΓΙΝΕΙ ΠΙΟ ΕΥΕΛΙΚΤΟΣ Ο ΚΡΑΤΙΚΟΣ ΜΗΧΑΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΩΣΤΕ ΝΑ ΜΗ ΘΡΗΝΗΣΟΥΜΕ ΞΑΝΑ ΘΥΜΑΤΑ ΕΞΑΙΤΙΑΣ ΧΡΟΝΟΒΟΡΩΝ ΓΡΑΦΕΙΟΚΡΑΤΙΚΩΝ ΔΙΑΔΙΚΑΣΙΩΝ* ΝΑ ΕΠΙΒΛΗΘΕΙ ΑΥΣΤΗΡΟΤΕΡΟΣ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΣ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΑΠΛΟΚΗ ΦΑΡΜΑΚΕΥΤΙΚΩΝ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΟΥ ΚΑΤΕΣΤΗΜΕΝΟΥ* ΝΑ ΑΞΙΟΠΟΙΗΘΟΥΝ ΟΙ ΑΝΕΚΜΕΤΑΛΛΕΥΤΕΣ ΝΟΣΟΚΟΜΕΙΑΚΕΣ ΥΠΟΔΟΜΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΝΑ ΥΠΑΡΞΕΙ ΣΥΝΕΧΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΤΙΑ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΤΑΡΤΙΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΟΛΟΥΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΓΙΑΤΡΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥΣ ΝΟΣΗΛΕΥΤΕΣ ΤΟΥ Ε.Σ.Υ.

* ΝΑ ΚΑΘΙΕΡΩΘΕΙ Η ΨΗΦΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΟΥ ΦΑΚΕΛΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΑΣΘΕΝΟΥΣ ΠΑΝΕΛΛΗΝΙΩΣ, ΩΣΤΕ ΝΑ ΕΠΙΣΠΕΥΔΕΤΑΙ Η ΣΩΣΤΗ ΔΙΑΓΝΩΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΘΕΡΑΠΕΙΑ

ΑΣ ΠΑΨΕΙ ΠΛΕΟΝ Η ΥΠΟΚΡΙΣΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΚΥΒΕΡΝΩΝΤΩΝ, ΠΟΥ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΟΥΝ ΝΑ ΛΑΔΩΝΟΝΤΑΙ ΟΙ ΓΙΑΤΡΟΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΥΣ ΑΣΘΕΝΕΙΣ ΠΑΡΑ ΝΑ ΑΜΕΙΒΟΝΤΑΙ ΑΞΙΟΠΡΕΠΩΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΚΡΑΤΟΣ.

* ΟΧΙ ΑΛΛΑ ΦΑΚΕΛΑΚΙΑ

* ΟΧΙ ΑΛΛΗ ΓΡΑΦΕΙΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ

* ΟΧΙ ΑΛΛΟΣ ΕΜΠΑΙΓΜΟΣ

ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥΜΑΣΤΕ ΔΩΡΕΑΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΠΕΡΙΘΑΛΨΗ. ΓΙΑ ΟΛΟΥΣ.

Την επόμενη φορά που θα χρειαστεί να δώσετε φακελάκι, μην το κάνετε. Προτιμήστε καλύτερα να κάνετε μια δωρεά. Η τελευταία επιθυμία της Αμαλίας ήταν η ενίσχυση της υπό ανέγερση Ογκολογικής Μονάδας Παίδων.

(Σύλλογος Ελπίδα, τηλ: 210-7757153, e-mail: infο@elpida.org, λογαριασμός Εθνικής Τράπεζας: 080/480898-36, λογαριασμός Alphabank: 152-002-002-000-515. Θυμηθείτε να αναφέρετε ότι η δωρεά σας είναι “για την Αμαλία”).

ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΑΚΗ ΚΙΝΗΣΗ ΦΙΛΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΑΜΑΛΙΑΣ

Dedicated to those who were given birth before 1980!!!

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The truth is that I do not know how we managed to survive all these years. We are the pending generation, we lived our childhood waiting for: two hours after eating to swim, two hours midday sleep to get rest, and during Sundays we should wait foodless until we were given the Eucharist. Even when we were in pain, waiting was the suggested cure.

Recollecting the past, it is difficult to believe that we are still alive. We used to travel in cars without seat belts and airbags!!! We were travelling for 10 and 12 hours, five individuals in a small Fiat and we never suffered from any kind of syndrome!!! We never had special doors, windows, cupboards and safety bottles for children!!! We were riding the bicycles without helmets and protective bandages; we were hitch-hiking, riding motorcycles without license!!! Swings were made from metal and they had edgy corners!!!

Even our games were violent; we used to stay for hours building self-made cars to compete each other rolling down from hills discovering that we forgot to install brakes in our cars!!! We were playing leap frog and nobody had any kind of orthopaedic problems (amazing)!!! We were running out of our house playing all day long and we never returned back home before we get exhausted!!! No one could find us and we never get lost or kidnapped (wow)!!! We were breaking our bones and teeth in the absence of custody laws and nobody ever got charged for it!!! We were playing war games with wooden guns, stones and mud and we used to hit our heads several times per day!!! The magic medicine of those days was the iodine tinctures some stitches and a newspaper on top!!! Nobody was blaming anybody else apart himself!!! We had strong fights and we were jeering each other forgetting everything with a magic way!!! We were eating candies and we were drinking refreshments but we were not obese or fat!!! Some of us might be a bit over weighted but nobody cared. We were using the same bottles, we were drinking the same water, and refreshments and nobody had problems of catching a virus (a nightmare)!!! We used to share our crab louses in the school and our mother confronted this problem by just washing our heads with vinegar…

We never had playstation, or Nintendo 64, or 99 TV channels, video tapes, DVD, Dolby surround audio, pc, laptops and internet (a real hell)!!! We just had friends (f-r-i-e-n-d-s)!!! We were talking to each other and we were wandering around to solve the universal problems (and we did)!!! Sometime we just met each other in the roads hiding, running or just flirting(you know a girl and a boy…)!!! We had lost thousands of footballs, we were drinking water form the faucets –some of us literary touching our tongues to the faucet- and not a bottled one from a spring in Alps(how inappropriate)!!! We were chasing lizards and birds with our air-guns, and we were never accused as criminals. We were alone in the country and although we were under aged no adults were supervising us… oh God!!!  
We were communicating shouting each other or just ridding our bicycles to our friends’ houses. Imagine we never had mobil phones and we were never asking our parents permission to play around, all alone out there… in this cruel world… without any adult to be responsible for our actions… how we ever made it!!!

In school everybody was participating in the games we were playing and those of us who were cut off, we just had to live with it and not visit the first pedo-psychiatrist!!! Some of us were not so good students and had to repeat the course, there were no special tests to force them pass the course… how horrible!!!

We were on vacations for three months every summer spending 16 hours in the beach without sun care cream with protection index of 70 we were not taking lessons of sailing, tennis or golf. We were building imaginary castles in the sand and we were fishing using hooks… and fishing lines… We were flirting and groping girls, physically without being accused for sexual harassment, and not by chatting in a chat room using idiot signs like J, , : D : P, lol, gg

We were free to fail, to succeed, to be responsible or irresponsible and through this process we learned and grew up. No wonder why nowadays children are so immature spoiled and slap happy. If you are though one of the “old fashioned” and you grew up in similar ways… congratulations… you had the opportunity to grow up as a human being… a child…

Is television news reality a bitch… or it is just screwing everybody…?

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What I will try to describe in the following paragraphs is a consideration of the television journalism and news casting, which describe the nowadays TV regime. And I am starting from this word ‘regime’. As wikipedia explains:

A regime (occasionally spelled “régime”, particularly in older texts) denotes any system of social control, or more specifically, a form of government, especially an authoritarian one, such as one closely associated with a specific individual (e.g., “the Saddam regime”, the Clinton or Bush regime, “the Lukashenko regime”, or “the Salazar regime”), or based on a particular ideology (eg. “a communist” regime”, “a socialist regime”, “a fascist regime”, or “a military regime”).In theory, the term need not imply anything about the particular government to which it relates, and there are political scientists who use it as a neutral term. But the term is often used in a pejorative manner as a reference to governments believed to be repressive, undemocratic or illegitimate, such that in these contexts the word conveys a sense of moral disapproval or political opposition. For example, one is less likely to hear of a “democratic regime”.Political scientist Fred Judson, defines a regime as the “relationship between the state, society, (the) market, and global insertion”. 

On the other hand wikipedia defines journalism which is responsible for the news constitution as follows:

Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting information regarding current events, trends, issues and people. Those who practice journalism are known as journalists.News-oriented journalism is sometimes described as the “first rough draft of history” (attributed to Phil Graham), because journalists often record important events, producing news articles on short deadlines. While under pressure to be first with their stories, news media organizations usually edit and proofread their reports prior to publication, adhering to each organization’s standards of accuracy, quality and style. Many news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials and institutions accountable to the public, while media critics have raised questions about holding “the press” itself accountable. 

Now why did I referred to these terms and tried to define them from an objective perspective (wikipedia)? Well I feel that viewing a TV news bulleting in my country these definitions become blurring and scramble my mind in a way that I clearly see that the “officials” to be accountable are doing the job of the journalists, which means that they “collect, analyze, verify, and present information regarding current events, trends, issues and people” in order to avoid to be accountable when journalists from a podium in a studio or a live stream from the field exercise their “democratic regime” prerogatives to enhance their “relationship between the state, society, (the) market, and global insertion”.

The fourth estate, the traditional term to address press power, when we refer to its television form, has become the first where its members are not accountable for what they say, how they say it and what effects does this have to ”the state, the society, and the market”. Have you see them how they attack to anyone who disputes their authority in such a way that may be characterized as “repressive, undemocratic or illegitimate” targeting to enforce a “system of social control” consecrating their role as the “Robin Hoods” of social morality? The power of the mass passive “coach potato” televiewing offers to TV news a base to develop a particular ideology which eventually acts as the tool to establish a regime of free-floating viewers.  

Don’t take me wrong but this exactly the way I feel when I see TV news casts where the typical verification does not exist in the altar of getting the story first, with more blood, more sperm and more glamorous… Lots of talking heads in television windows shouting things that nobody can or afford to understand, verify, or validate and no one from an official position willing to back the ground…I can envision the discussion of an incompetent news director who shouts to its editors for more “first page” stories otherwise he will screw them with his lengthy qualifications… the result is what we see and we don’t want to see. What really happens is that the audience is exposed to those who really influence the incompetent news professionals. And usually those are the representatives of the parastate, a bunch of semi-legal varmints who survive in any kind of state change and dominate any kind of state, social or market balances.

It is an oxymoron but in Greece, and I presume in other countries too, the national television has achieved to be characterized from the audience as the most trustworthy as far as its news. The national television which is dominated by the officials of the traditional state authorities (those who have the power to create a regime or represent a regime) and they have achieved to turn the course of the news market in favor of them.   

Imagine Montesquieu to wake up as a coach potato viewer during the broadcast of news bulletin today… Montesquieu proposed the division of political power between an executive, a legislature, and a judiciary. Under this model, each branch has separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility; however, each branch is also able to place limits on the power exerted by the other branches. He would be shocked to death after 30 or 45 minutes of this uncontrollable power which derives its authority by itself and the magnetic waves that transmit it.  

Well since he was largely responsible for the popularization of the terms “feudalism” and “Byzantine Empire”, I presume that he would also be very happy to find out that although his articulation of the theory of power may not be alive in the 21^st century but his other two kids are here to rule the world through the TV context.

Imagine a network imperceptible connecting thoughts…

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“Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power… And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth. The same rule holds for us now, of course: we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome… To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived…”

So, I am here, and I was here since like ever… because I envisioned it, like millions of other people when I was young, along with all the ideas of the network thing… the cyberspace, the infinite network of knowledge exchange, of free information without rights… living for ever out of my body (don’t start laughing already at me… you will have plenty of time… to reconsider…)

All this good and bad things that the new century brought in the name of the network, in the name of the liberation from the chains; a bloodless revolution that overcame the scarce of knowledge and redistributed the power of  knowing. We knew that we had already arrived by the time we envisioning this future, and that is exactly the reason why it happened…

And more are to come… not as miracles… but as prediction of what is already written in the genes, not only that of the humans but from all living creatures… imagine a network imperceptible connecting thoughts… sharing unspeakable knowledge…

We are searching the past to determine our future… in the world of tomorrow… ignoring that the real information is situated in the genes… not the books… not the bits and bytes… but in the only carrier that continue its existence regardless the historical events… regardless devastations… the knowledge is written there and waits to be discovered…

And it’s about time for this to happen again… because we know what we do know when we decrypted portion of the knowledge sometime in the past… with some kind of a knowledge network exchange… with some kind of cyberspace notion… this is why we live… and this is why we die… we carry the information… batteries included… and we return these batteries in a recycled way to the next carriers…

But what we are loosing today… is the enjoyment of unification… the pleasure of the knowledge network… under a thoughts interconnection system… forming the infinite brain storming literally…

To be there, to anywhere that is, we know that we are already there… we know how to do it… but it may take 100 lives to achieve it… and another 1000 lives to form it… after all that is why there is a balance in the nature… a way to make bad things to work for the good… and today we have the enjoyment to live a second of the future… a second of what will be the optimum network… what will be the answer to the first and last question… why we live…