Can
you believe it? I'm in hospital now, and it's officially the first time in my
very fragile life I'm honestly fearing for my life. In hospital. In Finland
celebrating the 100th anniversary of independence. Highly educated, highly
polished, highly praised country of Scandinavian high technology,
sophistication, science, and civil rights.
I have with me a huge folder of scientific
medical research texts, official statements, all stating that I need and are
entitled for my empirical research medication, to the point of molecule level
justification why I need this medication keeping me literally breathing and
alive. (The one bureaucrats decided to take away from me when they decided
to restrict the rights of my M.D. without legally pounding justification. The
one bureaucrats admit I need but nobody wants the responsibility to write
prescriptions.)
And what I hear? After a whole exhausting day of
taking care I get my "appropriate and real" myasthenia gravis
medication on time (the one this specific clinic has prescript in the first
place), as I need it every 2 hours and not once got it without especially
asking for it, I heard matter-of-factly "your treatment will be closed
down tomorrow". Yes, you heard me. Closed down, not like "we'll
discuss about your medical issues tomorrow" or "we'll think about
this medical treatment tomorrow" or even “we have read all the papers and
decided…”. I'd be very interested indeed to hear the scientific justification
for the decision if I wouldn't be this terrified.
How this can be happening in a highly-sophisticated
country like Finland? They don't listen to an individual experience of a
citizen nor scientific facts. Just because, you know, power feels so damn good.
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