Charlotte Haug

10.12.2013: The opposition to «bureaucratic obstacles to medical research» is part of the propaganda which has as its primary objective the promotion of the sale of pharmaceutical drugs. Early in the morning of 8 May 2004, Mary Weiss received the worst message a mother can hear: her son Dan Markingson had taken...

03.09.2013: The health services are not like other services. Not because they are so exceptional in nature, but because the health market functions poorly. «The Health Services Initiative has given voice to the frustration which is widespread among health personnel, but may help to bring about more of the...

06.08.2013: Norway can have the world’s best health services for individual patients, for the population as a whole or for the health workers – but not for all of them at the same time. That’s wishful thinking. Every year I observe at close range one of the best medical environments that I know of, at Stanford...

27.11.2012: Management of clinical departments cannot be achieved through leaflets, PowerPoint presentations and declarations of intent «As Minister of Health, I will say to those responsible: You need to come forward with a clarification of this matter. We cannot have an inter-departmental conflict which is...

02.10.2012: Now, we have (yet) another new red-green Minister of Health. Will he cut to the chase and declare that the enterprise reform was a mistake? Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum Seneca, Roman philosopher (4 BCE – 65 CE) It ended as we expected: We have yet another new Minister of Health...

04.09.2012: If 22 July had happened in the health services, would we have seen a Sønderland report or a Gjørv report? «Yes, ’n’ how many times can a man turn his head, pretending he just doesn’t see?» Bob Dylan, Blowin’ in the Wind, 1962 It took me some time to find out why I felt so uneasy during the days...

12.06.2012: Are the public health services being threatened by a discussion of various models for self-payment? Or is the absence of such a discussion even more serious? «For the first time, Norwegian authorities are considering whether children should pay a patient’s charge for vaccines at the health centre...

15.05.2012: The demand for private health insurance policies is exploding. Could the simple reason be that there is a need for them? Rune Bjerke is a Labour Party politician, a successful business manager and a close friend of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Now, however, he may have antagonised the red-green...