Liv-Ellen Vangsnes

07.04.2021: According to the prime minister, we cannot afford to expand intensive care capacity without taking resources from other patient groups. The strange thing is that in other respects, money seems to be no issue. 'This is a priority,' Prime Minister Erna Solberg recently stated when confronted with the...

09.12.2019: Medical error is rarely caused by individual carelessness. Punishing health workers will do more harm than good. To minimise the risk we should build a culture for learning, not for punishment. To err is human – to blame others is politics. This recently became obvious when Åshild Bruun-Gundersen...

30.10.2017: A young doctor in Denmark has been found guilty of gross negligence. She asked a nurse to measure a patient's blood glucose level, but failed to enter her request in the medical records. A young doctor is on primary on-call duty one night in August 2013. A patient is admitted with abdominal pains...

25.10.2016: The doctors’ strike to preserve appropriate working conditions ended in compulsory arbitration. Patient safety and the quality of health care are threatened from many sides. The requirements in the Health Care Act, stating the hospitals shall make provisions for ensuring responsible conduct, appear...

09.02.2016: Hospitals are struggling with systems that are not working. Medical considerations are being sidelined, and job satisfaction is evaporating. This might well have an effect on patients. The specialist health services require 44 000 additional man-years by 2040 (1). It is therefore disturbing that...

02.06.2015: Palliative measures may provide better end-of-life care than life-prolonging treatment. Overtreatment may reduce the quality of life. In our part of the world, significant resources are spent on the critically ill, enabling many people to survive serious illnesses and injuries. However, there is a...