Sverre Halvorsen

08.01.2013: Doctors have a responsibility for revealing and acting on cases involving child abuse, but they often fail to do so. There is sufficient knowledge available to see, investigate and take responsibility. Doctors and other professionals use a number of psychological mechanisms to protect themselves...

13.12.2011: She wasn’t hanging like a limp rag over the side of the bed the way she usually did when she threw up. No, she was lying stretched out. That bothered her mother, and she told the doctor about it when she rang to get help for her four year-old. The young doctor had heard of Kernig and Brudzinski, but...

08.04.2011: I’m reading a letter from a former associate Who has spent many years in Bhutan and Nepal Now the sole doctor in a hospital, His letter contains gripping stories Of a mother nearly bleeding to death postpartum The neighbours won’t donate blood, having none to spare The hospital staff steps in, four...