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Mette Brekke er spesialist i allmennmedisin og professor emerita ved Avdeling for allmennmedisin, Universitetet i Oslo.
Articles by Mette Brekke
Rotating GPs
- Mette Brekke
21.11.2024:
In rural Norwegian municipalities, the GP service is increasingly staffed by doctors on work-leave rotation. What do we gain from this, and what do we lose? 'When I grow up, I'm going to be a country doctor,' says Linus in the Peanuts cartoon to his big sister Lucy. 'Ha! I can just see you living in...
Correction: Poisonings by substances of abuse at the Oslo Accident and Emergency Outpatient Clinic 2014–18
- Jenny Victoria Tran,
- Mette Brekke,
- Odd Martin Vallersnes
17.09.2024:
Tidsskr Nor Legeforen 2021; 141. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.20.0751 In this original article, first published in April 2021, the following error occurred: Incidence was estimated based on the total population of Oslo and not the number of inhabitants ≥ 12 years, as stated in the article. This means that...
GPs of the future as agents of sustainability
- Nina Køpke Vøllestad,
- Mette Brekke,
- Trygve Skonnord,
- Kristin Heggen
19.10.2023:
Healthcare education must develop the students' competence to manage challenges associated with sustainable decisions. Sustainability is a challenging concept. It is a forceful expression of power that requires individual action from all of us, but it is also a stock phrase used to describe...
Late effects after breast cancer treatment
- Kathrine F. Vandraas,
- Solveig Smedsland,
- Harald Kåre Engan,
- Cecilie Kiserud,
- Bjørn Naume,
- Mette Brekke,
- Kristin Valborg Reinertsen
03.08.2023:
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in Norway. Nine out of ten will become long-term survivors. Being cancer-free does not necessarily mean feeling healthy, and many experience troublesome late effects, such as fatigue, pain and fear of recurrence. General practitioners represent the...
GPs' role as supervisor – an end to unpaid efforts
- Knut Eirik Ringheim Eliassen,
- Mette Brekke
03.08.2023:
Until now, Norwegian universities have relied on general practitioners to accept medical students based on an altruistic interest and goodwill, and have considered this arrangement adequate for both the students and the doctors. This era of unpaid efforts needs to end! A growing number of treatment...
GPs' experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic – a focus group study
- Therese Renaa,
- Mette Brekke
01.09.2022:
Little was known about the SARS-CoV-2 virus at the start of the pandemic, and knowledge was lacking about the routes of infection, the potential severity of illness and what infection control measures would be appropriate. There were no national codes of practice or guidelines, and the authorities'...
Are pregnant women and unborn children being forgotten in the pandemic?
- Cathrine Ebbing,
- Mette Brekke
07.02.2022:
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a biopsychosocial health risk to pregnant women, women in labour and infants throughout the world. COVID-19 is affecting pregnant women, women in labour and infants to a greater extent than we thought. In addition to the risk of serious maternal illnesses, there is also...
Where did all the doctors go?
- Mette Brekke,
- Jeanette Solheimslid Bjørke,
- Torben Wisborg
08.11.2021:
How can it be that Norway has a growing shortage of doctors while the number of professionally active doctors is increasing? According to figures from the Norwegian Medical Association for July this year, Norway has 27 924 professionally active doctors under 70 years of age, of whom 15 502 are...