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Stig Heskestad er pensjonert psykiater og tidligere sjeflege ved Jæren DPS.
Articles by Stig Heskestad
Drug-free psychiatric treatment – what do the patients think?
- Stig Heskestad,
- Anne Martha Kalhovde,
- Einar Steen Jakobsen,
- Margrete Tytlandsvik,
- Laila Horpestad,
- Inger Karin Sletthaug Runde
02.10.2019:
In 2010, five users' and interest organisations took the initiative for the 'Joint Campaign for Drug-Free Treatment Programmes in the Mental Health Services' (1), and in 2015 the Ministry of Health and Care Services instructed the regional health trusts to establish treatment programmes that were...
The value of a human being
- Stig Heskestad,
- Finn Egil Tønnessen
17.04.2012:
Values form an implicit basis of the personal encounter between patient and doctor. The equal value of all humans, irrespective of their characteristics and achievements, cannot be taken for granted. Neither can it be proven logically. In the UN Declaration of Human Rights, fundamental values are...
Waiting for psychiatric treatment
- Stig Heskestad
01.11.2011:
Health queues and waiting lists are a strain on the public and on health workers alike. The idea of a seminar for patients who are on a waiting list for treatment in the outpatient clinic emerged from a situation involving long waiting periods and a desire to do something actively for the patients...