Dag Bratlid

22.01.2018: The number of doctors in hospitals is increasing far faster than the number of patients. Although hospital doctors claim to have less and less time available for working with patients, each patient nevertheless spends more time with a doctor. The doctors' working hours need to be better organised to...

12.12.2017: The Norwegian System of Patient Injury Compensation and the Patients' Injury Compensation Board have been harshly criticised in reports on the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's NRK News by patients and lawyers as well as by former and current medical experts within the system. These reports have...

22.11.2016: Including a method of organising hospital shift work that is more than 20 years old in a collective agreement should not be the first priority for solving any of the problems that the specialist health services are facing. The doctors should rather have gone on strike to come under the protection of...

13.09.2016: A national standard for estimating date of delivery and gestational age must include both technological and biological information. Ultrasound-based methods such as Terminhjulet or eSnurra will, when used together with a good clinical assessment of menstrual history, provide pregnant women with a...

13.08.2009: In foetal life, the ductus arteriosus connects the pulmonary artery to the aorta. At birth the ductus contracts and is functionally closed within a few days. Closure of the ductus is a result of several mechanisms, the most important being the increase in blood oxygen tension at birth and reduction...