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Portrait of 37year old Dutch CF-patient

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C4W

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Monique Goewie is 37 and still waiting for a lung donor. A camercrew from Radio Netherlands payed her a visit and she tells hem about her life in the hospitalroom.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.rnw.nl/nederlands/video/cf-patient-wanhoop-van-wachten-op-een-long">Video online</a>

You can choose 'English'subtitles at the bottom of the movie.
 
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C4W

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Monique Goewie is 37 and still waiting for a lung donor. A camercrew from Radio Netherlands payed her a visit and she tells hem about her life in the hospitalroom.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.rnw.nl/nederlands/video/cf-patient-wanhoop-van-wachten-op-een-long">Video online</a>

You can choose 'English'subtitles at the bottom of the movie.
 
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C4W

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Monique Goewie is 37 and still waiting for a lung donor. A camercrew from Radio Netherlands payed her a visit and she tells hem about her life in the hospitalroom.
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<br /><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.rnw.nl/nederlands/video/cf-patient-wanhoop-van-wachten-op-een-long">Video online</a>
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<br />You can choose 'English'subtitles at the bottom of the movie.
 
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entropy

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thanks for sharing.

one would think that in a socialist country like the netherlands organ donation would be mandatory. at least she has the best medical care that one can have.
 
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entropy

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thanks for sharing.

one would think that in a socialist country like the netherlands organ donation would be mandatory. at least she has the best medical care that one can have.
 
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entropy

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thanks for sharing.
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<br />one would think that in a socialist country like the netherlands organ donation would be mandatory. at least she has the best medical care that one can have.
 
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colinmaydahl

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Great video, I'm pretty sure the Netherlands are a democracy, they just have health care figured out better than we do here in the US.

Colin
 
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colinmaydahl

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Great video, I'm pretty sure the Netherlands are a democracy, they just have health care figured out better than we do here in the US.

Colin
 
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colinmaydahl

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Great video, I'm pretty sure the Netherlands are a democracy, they just have health care figured out better than we do here in the US.
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<br />Colin
 
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welshwitch

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I too really liked the video. I've been to Amsterdam and culturally they are so different than Americans--they are so much more reserved and I love how dry and almost sardonic she was. Yep they have their health care figured out--my friend (no CF) moved there and just got gallbladder surgery a couple weeks ago for free!

Hope she gets her lungs!
 
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welshwitch

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I too really liked the video. I've been to Amsterdam and culturally they are so different than Americans--they are so much more reserved and I love how dry and almost sardonic she was. Yep they have their health care figured out--my friend (no CF) moved there and just got gallbladder surgery a couple weeks ago for free!

Hope she gets her lungs!
 
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welshwitch

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I too really liked the video. I've been to Amsterdam and culturally they are so different than Americans--they are so much more reserved and I love how dry and almost sardonic she was. Yep they have their health care figured out--my friend (no CF) moved there and just got gallbladder surgery a couple weeks ago for free!
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<br />Hope she gets her lungs!
 
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entropy

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edit: the netherlands walks the fine line between democracy and socialism.
 
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entropy

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edit: the netherlands walks the fine line between democracy and socialism.
 
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entropy

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edit: the netherlands walks the fine line between democracy and socialism.
 
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colinmaydahl

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I went looking for the fine line that You were talking about and I could not find it. Yes they have health care for everybody, collage for everybody, and have 3 main political partys that none have had a held a majority in parlement since the 19th century and are more socially tolerant than the US is but all of those things seem pretty good to me. I'm ok with getting taxed 50% if we get health care and collage for all.

I don't think those things make the Netherlands socialist, I think they are looking after there people. Everybody is free to travel, move, change jobs, go to the Doc if the want to or not. Nobody is being forced to go to collage and educate themselves, they have the option and can chose for themselves.

I don't know about You but with out "social" healthcare programs I would not be here today.

Colin
 
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colinmaydahl

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I went looking for the fine line that You were talking about and I could not find it. Yes they have health care for everybody, collage for everybody, and have 3 main political partys that none have had a held a majority in parlement since the 19th century and are more socially tolerant than the US is but all of those things seem pretty good to me. I'm ok with getting taxed 50% if we get health care and collage for all.

I don't think those things make the Netherlands socialist, I think they are looking after there people. Everybody is free to travel, move, change jobs, go to the Doc if the want to or not. Nobody is being forced to go to collage and educate themselves, they have the option and can chose for themselves.

I don't know about You but with out "social" healthcare programs I would not be here today.

Colin
 
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colinmaydahl

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I went looking for the fine line that You were talking about and I could not find it. Yes they have health care for everybody, collage for everybody, and have 3 main political partys that none have had a held a majority in parlement since the 19th century and are more socially tolerant than the US is but all of those things seem pretty good to me. I'm ok with getting taxed 50% if we get health care and collage for all.
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<br />I don't think those things make the Netherlands socialist, I think they are looking after there people. Everybody is free to travel, move, change jobs, go to the Doc if the want to or not. Nobody is being forced to go to collage and educate themselves, they have the option and can chose for themselves.
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<br />I don't know about You but with out "social" healthcare programs I would not be here today.
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<br />Colin
 
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Wereldomroep

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<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.rnw.nl/english/video/donor-lungs-long-wait
">http://www.rnw.nl/english/video/donor-lungs-long-wait
</a>
Is the English version and below the info about Monique and our Health Care system. Unfortanetely, being an organ donor is not mandatory in The Netherlands. It is at our Neighbour-country Belgium, not mandatory. But you automatically are an organ donor and you can register if you don't want that. In Holland we have a system where you have to register your choice, if you dont register you're not a donor and they let your family decide. Which is an awful choice, whatever you choose. I personally favour the Belgium system, but that's personal. It would save so many lives. Because a lot of people in our country just forget to register because of the hassle of filling out a form.

I'm going to visit Monique again tomorrow and drop off the DVD. I'm the reporter who made this and she really touched my heart. So pure and real and still fighting and keeping the faith. I've know her for a couple of years now and a friend of mine has two babies with Cf. My friend just discovered this and because there is still a lot of people who don't know about being an organ donor or CF i made this video.




Info:
A campaign to recruit potential organ donors has just been held in the Netherlands; its slogan: 'organ donation, yes or no?' For Monique Goewie (37) that's a question of life and death, because she has cystic fibrosis. The disease is now so advanced that she's been at the head of the queue for a lung transplant for quite some time.

Her own lungs are in such bad shape that she now lives in hospital. Actually she's waiting in hospital, her life on hold, as it were. Having spent three years on the list as a 'highly urgent case', it's been a long wait - extremely long. And now time could be running out.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.rnw.nl/english/video/donor-lungs-long-wait">http://www.rnw.nl/english/video/donor-lungs-long-wait</a>
 
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Wereldomroep

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<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.rnw.nl/english/video/donor-lungs-long-wait
">http://www.rnw.nl/english/video/donor-lungs-long-wait
</a>
Is the English version and below the info about Monique and our Health Care system. Unfortanetely, being an organ donor is not mandatory in The Netherlands. It is at our Neighbour-country Belgium, not mandatory. But you automatically are an organ donor and you can register if you don't want that. In Holland we have a system where you have to register your choice, if you dont register you're not a donor and they let your family decide. Which is an awful choice, whatever you choose. I personally favour the Belgium system, but that's personal. It would save so many lives. Because a lot of people in our country just forget to register because of the hassle of filling out a form.

I'm going to visit Monique again tomorrow and drop off the DVD. I'm the reporter who made this and she really touched my heart. So pure and real and still fighting and keeping the faith. I've know her for a couple of years now and a friend of mine has two babies with Cf. My friend just discovered this and because there is still a lot of people who don't know about being an organ donor or CF i made this video.




Info:
A campaign to recruit potential organ donors has just been held in the Netherlands; its slogan: 'organ donation, yes or no?' For Monique Goewie (37) that's a question of life and death, because she has cystic fibrosis. The disease is now so advanced that she's been at the head of the queue for a lung transplant for quite some time.

Her own lungs are in such bad shape that she now lives in hospital. Actually she's waiting in hospital, her life on hold, as it were. Having spent three years on the list as a 'highly urgent case', it's been a long wait - extremely long. And now time could be running out.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.rnw.nl/english/video/donor-lungs-long-wait">http://www.rnw.nl/english/video/donor-lungs-long-wait</a>
 
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