Born Finn

When you read something like this: “A doctor, who had received two reprimands in Finland, is suspected of having made a number of incorrect cancer diagnoses while working in Ireland recently. Pathologist Antoine Geagea, 57, has become the central figure in a cancer diagnosis scandal in Ireland in recent days. He had previously worked at the Kätilöopisto Maternity Hospital of the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS) from where he was on a recuperation leave. The Lebanese-born Geagea, who has lived in Finland for decades, worked in Ireland in 2006-2007 in at least two different hospitals. Now two separate teams of investigators are looking into his breast cancer diagnoses.” the first thing you naturally feel is chills for the poor victims.

I mean I know personally what it is when somebody tells you, you got cancer; and I know well all the tests and all the changes you have to go though in a short period while your psychic is getting lower and lower and do all that because of a mistake that’s …too much. And in this case I take as graded that his mistake was that there was no cancer and he did diagnosed that there is, what happens on the other side when there is and he diagnosed that there isn’t I just … don’t want to think about!

And if that was not enough the agency had to put a bit of …prejudice – I try hard to avoid the word racism. “The Lebanese-born Geagea, who has lived in Finland for decades…” oh man! They mean that it was his Lebanese origins that led him to the wrong diagnosis?

Do they mean that if he was Finnish origin he wouldn’t have made a mistake? He went to the same university and he had the same teachers, or do they mean that in Finnish universities the foreign origin take different education? Or and I hope I’m wrong, do they blame it on his …origins?

The decision for his guilt or not is in the hands of specialists and the justice, Irish and Finnish; and till then we should better respect the fact – constitutionally protected – that everybody is innocent till proven guilty; but this …” The Lebanese-born Geagea, who has lived in Finland for decades…” is definitely guilty!