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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIg0q9H5auc&fe
ature=related This song is dedicated to
Amalia Kalyvinou (Greek: Αμαλία
Καλυβίνου) (click the link to learn
about her sad story)- Αφιερωμένο
στην Αμαλία Καλυβίνου
R.E.M - Everybody Hurts
When your day is long and the night,/The
night is yours alone / When you're sure
you've had enough of this life,/ well hang on
Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries
,and everybody hurts
Sometimes...sometimes everything is wrong,/
Now it's time to sing along
If you think you've had too much of this
life, / well hang on / 'Cause everybody
hurts, / take comfort in your friends /
Everybody hurts, / don't throw your hands, oh
now, /Don't throw your hands
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no /
you're not alone / If you're on your own in
this life, the days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much, of this
life, to hang on / Well everybody hurts,
sometimes / Everybody cries, and everybody
hurts, sometimes / everybody hurts sometimes
so hold on, hold on, hold on...
Everybody hurts, you are not alone...
ABOUT AMALIA (thanks for reading)
"Every patient has the right to being
respected and maintaining his dignity."
(Greek law, article 47, L.2071/1992)
"Quacks should be the exception, you guys,
not the norm..." (Amalia Kalyvinou ,
1977-2007)
Since the age of 8, Amalia Kalyvinou started
having pains. Despite her numerous visits to
doctors and several admissions to hospitals,
no-one managed to diagnose her in time with
the benign neurinoma of her lower extremity,
which was the actual diagnosis at that point.
17 years later, Amalia was told that the
neurinoma had transformed by then into a
malignant tumour.
For the next 5 years, Amalia not only had to
fight with the cancerous disease and
amputation, but also with a corrupt Greek
National Health System: it ignores (by
choice) the ongoing patient-to-doctor bribery
and insists on time-consuming bureaucratic
methods and practices. Besides radiotherapy
and chemotherapy, Amalia had to face the
financial exploitation by doctors that stood
opposite to rather than by her side. On top
of her pain, she had to endure the greediness
of private clinics and the exhaustingly long
waiting queues of the health insurance
system, in order to get legal approval for
some ridiculously low financial compensation.
Amalia passed away on Friday, May the 25th,
2007. She was just 30 years old...Before
dying, she managed to document her experience
and share it with us in her blog
http://fakellaki.blogspot.com/. The promising
literature graduate named in there each and
every one of the doctors she had to bribe,
praising at the same time the ones that
honoured the Hippocratic Oath. Her testimony
moved thousands of people that stood by her
side all the way to the end.
read more and in almost every language here:
http://giatinamalia-blog.blogspot.com/
Μy blog : http://cosmo-biology.blogspot.com/
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