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Morten Magelssen er professor og senterleder ved Senter for medisinsk etikk, Universitetet i Oslo.
Articles by Morten Magelssen
Priority setting – and other strategies for improving resource use
- Morten Magelssen,
- Mathias Barra,
- Eli Feiring,
- Henriette Sinding Aasen
24.03.2026:
When resources are scarce, the health service must use them wisely. Priority setting, choosing wisely (as part of the Choosing Wisely Norway campaign), withholding treatment and efficiency measures are four strategies that can help improve resource use. There is often no clear distinction made...
Attitudes to assisted dying among doctors in Norway
- Morten Magelssen,
- Berit H. Bringedal,
- Karin Isaksson Rø,
- Helene Seljenes Dalum
19.05.2025:
It is now standard practice to use the term assisted dying for both euthanasia and assisted suicide (1, 2). In this study, euthanasia is defined as a doctor intentionally causing a person's death by administering lethal drugs at the patient's request. Physician-assisted suicide refers to a doctor...
Doctors' attitudes to assisted dying
- Ole Marius Gaasø,
- Karin Isaksson Rø,
- Berit Bringedal,
- Morten Magelssen
14.01.2019:
Assisted dying is illegal in Norway, but surveys indicate that a majority of the population is in favour of legalisation (1). However, the issue of legalisation has not yet appeared on the political agenda. One reason for this could be that the traditional opposition to assisted dying among the...
A spiritual dimension is important for many patients
- Morten Magelssen,
- Olav Magnus S. Fredheim
21.01.2011:
Today it is generally accepted that an illness should be understood on the basis of a biopsychosocial model in which the patient’s thoughts, feelings and social relationships are of significance. But life also has a fourth dimension – the spiritual and existential. In our opinion, simple, open-ended...