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E-post: erlend.hem@lefo.no
Erlend Hem er instituttsjef ved Legeforskningsinstituttet og professor ved Universitetet i Oslo.
Articles by Erlend Hem
The doctor personality – does it exist?
- Erlend Hem
12.11.2013:
Doctors are used to being the cleverest in the class. Can this be our Achilles’ heel? The tendency to be loyal to the system, to be the cleverest boy and girl in the class and to do exactly what one is told is currently the greatest threat to doctors’ moral integrity. This was written by Professor...
Quarantine – not only about disease
- Erlend Hem
17.09.2013:
The word quarantine was originally a medical term denoting the isolation of carriers of communicable diseases. Nowadays, the term in Norwegian is mainly used to describe completely different forms of exclusion. When looking up the word quarantine in a modern Norwegian dictionary, we learn that this...
28.05.2013:
The Norwegian Medical Association owns this journal. But the content does not reflect the views of the association. In March 2013, Member of the Storting Jan-Henrik Fredriksen (Progress Party) submitted a written question to the Minister of Health and Care Services (1). As grounds for his question...
Are 72 % of all Norwegian doctors depressed?
- Erlend Hem
07.05.2013:
Science is contaminated by misquotes, misunderstandings and academic urban legends I was really excited when I discovered that my first scientific article in an international journal had been cited. I found the article on the Internet, and started reading. It started out just fine. The authors...
Patient, client, user or customer?
- Erlend Hem
23.04.2013:
The concept of «patient» has its flaws, but the alternatives are even worse In essence, what is a patient? The Patients’ and Users’ Rights Act defines a patient as «a person who contacts the health service requesting health care, or to whom the health service provides or offers health care as the...
Thou shalt not steal
- Erlend Hem
05.03.2013:
Plagiarism is stealing somebody else’s work. That is scientific misconduct. On 28 January 2013, the book could be closed on a long drawn-out conflict over a PhD thesis at the BI Norwegian Business School. The case had begun nearly three years earlier, in March 2010, when two professors at the school...
05.02.2013:
Patients are entitled to privacy – also in medical journals Recently, a patient contacted the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association to «(...) complain that he could recognise his own medical history in an article». In 1991, Magne Nylenna, who was editor of this journal at that time, started...
We will all be satisfied in the end
- Erlend Hem
08.01.2013:
To health bureaucrats and politicians, what matters is to persevere. Then, marvellous things may happen. «The scandals in the health services appear never-ending», the doctors Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, Kjetil Karlsen and Sven Erik Gisvold wrote in an op-ed in December (1). We have heard it before. What...