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Øyvind Stople Sivertsen er spesialist i allmennmedisin, fastlege ved Bjølsen legesenter og nestleder i Norsk forening for allmennmedisin (NFA). Han er debattredaktør i Tidsskriftet.
Articles by Øyvind Stople Sivertsen
Reform disorder
- Øyvind Stople Sivertsen
06.05.2026:
Do we need a healthcare reform? Not if it is driven by a desire to be seen rather than the aim of genuine service development. 'Renew, reinforce, refine' (1). The Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Services, Jan Christian Vestre's favourite phrase about general practice lies at the heart of the...
Framework to-do for GPs
- Øyvind Stople Sivertsen
22.04.2025:
The general practitioner crisis is over. Now comes the battle over the framework of a system that requires stability. In the spring of 2025, Jan Christian Vestre (Labour Party) will present a new white paper (1) on the general practice service. At the core of this is the general practitioner (GP)...
The pesky issue of consent
- Øyvind Stople Sivertsen
04.11.2024:
The Declaration of Helsinki has been revised. The discussion on how to conduct medical research in an ethical manner is never truly finished. In 1932, 600 young black men in the city of Tuskegee, Alabama, in the United States were promised free medical follow-up with blood tests and X-rays for six...
Don't mess with the training rotation
- Øyvind Stople Sivertsen
21.09.2023:
Yet again proposals have been put forward to alter the set training rotation for the first stage of specialty training after medical school. It's a bad idea. Bærum Hospital, February 2016: It is just after 3.30am. I am about to clock off after a twelve-hour shift as duty doctor on the medical ward...
Fleeing from responsibility
- Øyvind Stople Sivertsen
04.04.2022:
Medical assistance for a large group of people living in Norway is arbitrarily and poorly organised. Soon, the problems will be even bigger. Some time ago, a sick man came to a doctor's surgery in Bergen. The examination that followed showed that he had cancer. He was referred first to one hospital...
The role of general practitioners in osteoporosis treatment after fractures
- Jakob Vangen Nordbø,
- Øyvind Stople Sivertsen,
- Frede Frihagen,
- Lene B. Solberg
23.11.2020:
While a fall can be distressing, falling between two stools can be even worse. With general practitioners aboard, osteoporosis patients can receive better follow-up treatment. Previous fractures may well be the most important risk factor for subsequent fractures, because many of these patients...
Let the little children come unto me
- Øyvind Stople Sivertsen
07.09.2020:
General practitioners should retain their key role in the follow-up of pregnancies. Each year, approximately 55 000 children are born in Norway (1). In a normal pregnancy, the mother is offered eight regular check-ups, and she can choose whether she wants to see a doctor or a midwife. Given the...
The quick and easy doctors
- Øyvind Stople Sivertsen
31.01.2020:
There are many who think that it's a good idea to pay an unknown doctor three times the amount that a contract GP would charge for the same thing. How did we get there? One of the country's largest daily newspapers promises its subscribers access to telephone consultations with a doctor if they are...