The White Coat Death

How are you feeling", asks the doctor. "I am still alive". She replies, the heroine, the nameless one, since anyone of us may find him/herself in her shoes. From that brief dialogue, at the beginning of the book, the reader is caught into the literary masterfully woven web and cannot put the book down until the very last full stop on the last page. It would be very wrong to say that it is only a book about a girl struggling against a serious illness, drawn into the labyrinth of the health care and pharmaceutical industry, since above all this is the literature written to the glory of life!

This is the book-reminder to all those trading in human lives by putting the human people mask on their faces.

Milioni ljudi širom sveta godišnje umiru od posledica lekova, neadekvatnih terapija, nepotrebnih operativnih zahvata. Godišnje u svetu mnogo više ljudi umre od lekova na recept nego od uličnih droga. Medju lekarima je veliki broj alkoholičara, ovisnika o drogama, o čemu svedoče I popularne TV serije o medicinskim herojima , kao što je recimo dr HOUSE, arogantan, svemoćan, koga pokrivaju sve kolege, jer on je bolji od boga… podaci svetske zdravstvene organizacije jasno ukazuju na vezu izmedju sve bolesnijih ljudi I sve jače farmaceutske mafije.

At my lectures I always say deliberately and provocatively that there are four white deaths: white sugar, white flour, white salt and white coats. But, I have to admit, that being knowledgeable of what I know, I have not expected that anyone in this country of good and obedient people who have a blind trust in white coats, would have the nerve and arguments to come out in the public with a book criticizing the long lasting self-sustainable system of the authority, corruption, medicine and pharmacy coupling. THE NOVEL "THE WHITE COAT DEATH", by Marija Gojkovic, written in the first person, through the eyes of a girl afflicted by leukemia who on her own skin feels and experiences all stadiums of medical horror, starting from the nurses’ arrogant behavior, unkindness, indifference, cruelty, as far as corruption and theft at the high ranking levels of the authority and medicine, is the book which is read in one breath, and which encourages one to ask questions, reminiscence, reconsiderations and finally the rebellion against such a System imposed on us.

Let the dust raised by the "The White Coat Death" novel remain swirling for much longer