{"id":20944,"date":"2017-04-14T13:25:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T18:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=20944"},"modified":"2017-04-14T13:27:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T18:27:32","slug":"mumia-abu-jamal-la-ilusion-de-la-medicina-correccional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=20944","title":{"rendered":"[:es]Mumia Abu-Jamal: La ilusi\u00f3n de la medicina correccional[:en]Mumia Abu-Jamal: The illusion of correctional medicine[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]Por Mumia Abu-Jamal<\/p>\n<p>[podcast]http:\/\/fsrn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170403Mumia-CorrectionalMedicine.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n<p>En el inframundo de las prisiones de Estados Unidos, hay que deshacerse de todas las suposiciones m\u00e9dicas que uno trae del llamado mundo libre. Hemos sido condicionados a ver a las enfermeras como dulces fuentes de consuelo y a los doctores como personas dedicadas a curar a los enfermos y aliviar nuestro dolor.<\/p>\n<p>En prisi\u00f3n, nuevas reglas rigen la medicina y la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica. Aqu\u00ed el dinero manda. Las personas enfermas son pr\u00e1cticamente ignoradas.<\/p>\n<p>Esto puede parecer severo, pero les aseguro que la realidad es a\u00fan m\u00e1s severa.<\/p>\n<p>Hace poco escrib\u00ed sobre un abogado autodidacta en prisi\u00f3n que se llama Dennis \u2018Solo\u2019 McKeithan y su batalla para recibir tratamiento para el doloroso trastorno nervioso conocido como culebrilla. Mientras le\u00ed la transcripci\u00f3n del proceso, encontr\u00e9 los notables comentarios y preguntas del juez instructivos. \u00c9l pregunt\u00f3 esencialmente si la empresa contratada por el Departamento de Correcciones (DOC) para proporcionar atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica tendr\u00eda un conflicto, porque como una empresa privada, sus intereses eran ganar dinero al negarse a proveer los medicamentos que los presos necesitaban. El testigo neg\u00f3 la sugerencia, pero el juez hab\u00eda tocado un nervio.<\/p>\n<p>Desde el a\u00f1o 2015 hasta la fecha, mis abogados y yo hemos estado exigiendo un tratamiento verdadero para mi infecci\u00f3n de Hepatitis C. Inicialmente el DOC present\u00f3 una falsa declaraci\u00f3n jurada para justificar que un magistrado federal desechara mi demanda. El DOC argument\u00f3 que mi Hepatitis iba bien, que podr\u00eda durar a\u00f1os sin tratamiento.<\/p>\n<p>Un juez federal no estaba de acuerdo con esto y celebr\u00f3 una audiencia que demostr\u00f3 la falsedad de la declaraci\u00f3n jurada. Unos meses despu\u00e9s, el mismo juez declar\u00f3 que el protocolo del DOC era anti-constitucional.<\/p>\n<p>El DOC respondi\u00f3 que mi Hepatitis C estaba en un nivel bajo. De nuevo, el juez discrep\u00f3, declar\u00f3 anti-constitucional el protocolo por segunda vez y orden\u00f3 mi tratamiento. El DOC esencialmente hizo caso omiso del dictamen durante casi dos meses.<\/p>\n<p>A principios de esta semana, me hicieron an\u00e1lisis adicionales. Los resultados acaban de llegar. No s\u00f3lo tengo Hepatitis C muy avanzada, sino tambi\u00e9n cirrosis del h\u00edgado, llamado F4, porque el DOC no quer\u00eda gastar el dinero para tratar mi infecci\u00f3n. El DOC dijo que le costar\u00eda seis cientos millones de d\u00f3lares.<\/p>\n<p>A m\u00ed solo me puede costar la vida.<\/p>\n<p>Desde la naci\u00f3n encarcelada soy Mumia Abu-Jamal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a9\u201917maj<\/p>\n<p>31 de marzo de 2017<\/p>\n<p>Audio grabado por Noelle Hanrahan: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonradio.org\">www.prisonradio.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texto circulado por Fatirah <a href=\"mailto:Litestar01@aol.com\">Litestar01@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traducci\u00f3n Amig@s de Mumia, M\u00e9xico[:en]Imprisoned journalist and FSRN commentator Mumia Abu-Jamal has scored a decisive, and possibly life-saving, legal victory in his two-year-long fight to receive effective treatment for Hepatitis C. The case, Abu-Jamal vs. Wetzel, has broader implications for prisoners in need of life-saving medical treatment. In this commentary, Mumia Abu-Jamal describes the state of healthcare behind bars and the hospital and courtroom odyssey that resulted in the order that he receive Hep C treatment beginning this week.<\/p>\n<p>[podcast]http:\/\/fsrn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170403Mumia-CorrectionalMedicine.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n<h4>The illusion of correctional medicine.<\/h4>\n<p>By Mumia Abu-Jamal | <a href=\"https:\/\/fsrn.org\/2017\/04\/mumia-abu-jamal-the-illusion-of-correctional-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prison Radio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the netherworld of American prisons, one must jettison any medical assumptions one brings in from the so-called free world. We\u2019ve been conditioned to see nurses as sweet sources of solace, and doctors as people dedicated to healing the sick and easing our pain.<\/p>\n<p>In prison, new rules govern medicine and care. Here, money is master. The ill are all but ignored. This may seem harsh, but I must assure you, reality is even harsher.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I wrote of jailhouse lawyer Dennis \u201cSolo\u201d McKeithan and his battle to get examined and treated for the painful nerve disorder known as shingles. As I read this trial transcript, I found the remarkable comments and questions by the judge instructive. He asked, essentially, if the company hired by the DOC to provide healthcare had a conflict because, as a private company, its interests were to make money by refusing to provide medications needed by prisoners. The witness denied his suggestion, but the judge had hit a nerve.<\/p>\n<p>From 2015 to today, my lawyers and I have been demanding real treatment for my Hepatitis C infection. The DOC initially filed a false affidavit, which justified a U.S. magistrate\u2019s dismissal of my own suit. The DOC argued that my Hepatitis was fine, that it could go years without treatment. A federal judge disagreed and held a hearing which showed the affidavit was false, and months later declared the DOC, it\u2019s so-called protocol, was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The DOC fought back, arguing that my Hep C was at a low level. The judge, again, disagreed, declared the protocol unconstitutional a second time, and ordered my treated.<\/p>\n<p>The DOC essentially ignored the court order for close to two months, and earlier this week subjected me to more testing. Well, the results just came back. Not only do I have advanced Hepatitis C, I have cirrhosis of the liver, call F4, because the DOC didn\u2019t want to spend the money to treat my infection.<\/p>\n<p>The DOC said it would cost them $600 million dollars. It would only cost me my life.<\/p>\n<p>From Imprisoned Nation, this is Mumia Abu Jamal.[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]Por Mumia Abu-Jamal [podcast]http:\/\/fsrn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170403Mumia-CorrectionalMedicine.mp3[\/podcast] En el inframundo de las prisiones de Estados Unidos, hay que deshacerse de todas las suposiciones m\u00e9dicas que uno trae del llamado mundo libre. Hemos sido condicionados a ver a las enfermeras como dulces fuentes de consuelo y a los doctores como personas dedicadas a curar a los enfermos y aliviar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,826,953,183,962],"tags":[919,72,37,152],"class_list":["post-20944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-medios-libres-2","category-mundo","category-blog","category-presos","tag-estados-unidos","tag-mumia-abu-jamal","tag-presos-politicos","tag-salud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}