In the midst of the crushing forces of the paranoid health system, despised healers and persecuted patients astonish with their mental greatness. The odyssey of a young doctor in the inhospitable archipelago of public hospitals.

Until the penultimate year of middle school, the idea that I would become a doctor had never crossed my mind. On the contrary, I was very much leaning towards the Polytechnic. I had even started attending a tutorial to take exams for mechanical engineering. However, at some point, I felt unbearable pressure from sine waves, integrals, and polynomial roots, and I decided to take exams for a school that did not require mathematics, thus choosing medicine. But the Polytechnic remained a suppressed desire for me, which is why, perhaps subconsciously, I later chose a specialty that required technical skills, dealing with plaster casts and other building materials, as well as using all kinds of tools, such as drills, pliers, hammers, trowels, spatulas, screwdrivers, saws, cables, chisels, rasps, vises, screws, and anything else considered necessary for carpentry and repairs, perhaps except for the double ladder and the toolbox with the wooden wedges.

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Giorgos Dendrinós writes about the "Loufa" and variations of the National Health System.
Cháris Pontída

There is no doubt that Dendrinós essentially provides us, like every good and conscious comic writer, with a book of moral protest.
Vaggelis Chatzivasileiou, Eleftherotypia

The novel by Giorgos Dendrinós is remarkable, as it is hilarious while simultaneously taking on the task of depicting what we all know, sometimes pretending we don't see it, sometimes acting like it doesn't bother us, sometimes complaining, and at other times cursing: it tackles the depiction of hospital reality in the realm of public health.
Elisavet Kotsiá, I Kathimerini

Dendrinós has his tenderness, as he describes his life, but he also possesses a masterful, austere language that evokes laughter through its simplicity. It is one of those books that you read and your loved ones look at you strangely because you laugh loudly and uncontrollably. Tassos Telloglou

The eponymous film, directed by Sotiris Goritsas, was released in theaters in 2011.