Øyvind Stople Sivertsen

07.10.2019: A seemingly ill-conceived government proposal has reignited the debate about what separates doctors from nurses. In April, a proposal to the regulations concerning national guidelines for the master's degree in advanced clinical general nursing was sent out for consultation (1). This was followed by...

23.09.2019: The medical doctor and philosopher Carl Tollef Solberg defended his doctoral degree at the University of Bergen on 16 January 2018. Among other things, he reflects on counterfactual lives. For whom is death worst? Those who die, the bereaved or society? Who do we cry for at funerals? Do we cry on...

26.06.2018: Six out of ten contract GPs have considered quitting. I am looking forward to starting. I identify myself as a general practitioner, even though I am working outside general practice for the time being. However, there is a lot of talk about crisis. A rebellion is underway (1). We are told that it is...

05.03.2018: We have almost eradicated polio, but now vaccine coverage is levelling off. Are we giving up at the finish line? Deep in rural Kenya, in the Rift Valley, lies Pokot, which I recently visited. Around half a million people live in this region, most with their own little patch of land. Many live in mud...