Society

Big Brother is watching

Sad, but true!

|

For Amalia

A few days back Amalia, a greek blogger and cancer patient who blogged her experiences with hospitals and doctors in Greece, passed away. The fakelaki* has been around for a while, I remember it growing up in Greece, and I am sad to say that it still exists in Greece, in 2007, in an EU country.

Read more about it here





*Fakelaki (n) A cash bribe given to doctors, nurses and other hospital staff in order for a doctor to actually see you, despite the fact that Greece has a nationalize social medicine system. Literally: small envelope.
|