Margrethe Aase Schaufel

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E-post: margrethe.aase.schaufel@helse-bergen.no

Lungeavdelinga

Haukeland universitetssjukehus

Klinisk institutt 1

Universitetet i Bergen

Bergen senter for etikk og prioritering (BCEPS)

Universitetet i Bergen

Forfattarbidrag: idé til studien, utforming av spørjeskjemaet, analysar, tolking av data, utarbeiding og revisjon av manuset og godkjenning av innsendt versjon.

Margrethe Aase Schaufel er spesialist i hjarte- og lungesjukdomar, overlege og førsteamanuensis.

Articles by Margrethe Aase Schaufel

Pulmonologists' experiences with palliative sedation for terminally ill patients

Margrethe Aase Schaufel,
Reidun Førde,
Katrin Ruth Sigurdardottir,
Ingrid Miljeteig

30.10.2024: Palliative sedation has been criticised for being unethical and difficult to distinguish from euthanasia (1). Euthanasia is prohibited under Norwegian law and violates the Code of Ethics for Doctors (2, 3). The so-called Bærum case (4, 5) prompted the Norwegian Medical Association to devise ethical...

A woman in her thirties with confusion

Margrethe Aase Schaufel,
Fabian Gärtner,
Bodil Kristin Leivdal,
Sven André Haug,
Jorunn Brekke,
Anette Margrethe Storstein,
Øystein Vesterli Tveiten,
Jørn Eilert Bødtker,
Øystein Fløtten

08.08.2024: A woman in her mid-thirties was admitted to hospital due to confusion, apathy, weight loss and sleep disturbance. This article describes various ethical dilemmas involved in diagnosis and treatment. A previously healthy woman in her mid-thirties consulted a doctor due to confusion, apathy, sleep...

Ethical dilemmas for nursing home doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Emily McLean,
Kristine Husøy Onarheim,
Elisabeth Schanche,
Margrethe Aase Schaufel,
Ingrid Miljeteig

28.06.2022: Almost half of the COVID-19 deaths in Europe from the start of the pandemic until January 2021 occurred in nursing homes (1). In Norway, the majority of COVID-19 deaths in 2020 were in the over-80s, and many of these people died in nursing homes (2). Norwegian nursing home residents have an average...

Medical students' attitudes and expectations for future working conditions

Sander Kvammen Fimland,
Andreas Sorte Kjenås,
Karin Isaksson Rø,
Margrethe Aase Schaufel

18.11.2019: Norwegian hospital doctors have long reported a persistently high level of job satisfaction (1), but also long average working hours where hectic days, long shifts and exemptions from the Working Environment Act are the norm (2, 3). The doctors are being charged with an increasing number of new...