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16.02.2017: Young doctors want to have fixed salaries in general practice. We cannot afford to disregard this wish. When the «Regular GP» (RGP) reform was introduced in 2001, it was against the backdrop of a long-standing wish on the part of the authorities and doctors to strengthen the primary health services...

10.01.2017: «Post-truth» was the Word of the Year in 2016. It ought not to be in 2017. Language reflects reality. «Post-truth», in our country also called «post-factual», has been selected as Word of the Year 2016 by Oxford Dictionaries (1). Post-truth refers to circumstances in which objective facts are less...

13.09.2016: Twenty years after the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association first went online, we are now launching a new logo and new web pages adapted to mobile devices. This year, 20 years have passed since the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association first went online in February 1996 (1). We were...

21.06.2016: The 2016 Annual Representative Meeting of the Norwegian Medical Association adopted amendments to its statutes that placed even further emphasis on the editorial integrity of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. This will serve the journal, the association and Norwegian doctors in...

03.05.2016: The numerous and frequently contradictory guidelines for the health services need to be tidied up. Who will take charge of medical knowledge? «Are the authorities now exercising stronger governance over medical knowledge?» This question was raised by Åsmund Reikvam in an editorial in the Journal of...

19.04.2016: Research exists to shed light on the world. Politics is to use this light to set a direction. Therefore, political abuse of research is dangerous. «Research shows that quite often, parents and families are the ones who send their children out on hazardous journeys. Documentation from the UN High...

23.02.2016: The good and seductive narrative belongs around the lunch table, in the popular press and the anecdotal evidence presented by alternative medicine. But does it belong in science as well? «Research is not truth, but narratives.» This statement was made by Christine Laine, Editor-in-Chief of Annals of...

15.12.2015: The distinction between «mental» and «physical» is an impediment to an integrated understanding of the human. We are not a mind and a body, but both, inseparably and at the same time I decide to raise my arm. It moves. So simple. Yet, this embodies the entire enigma: how can an apparently immaterial...