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Petter Gjersvik er medisinsk redaktør i Tidsskriftet, professor emeritus ved Institutt for klinisk medisin og medlem av Gruppe for norsk medisinsk fagspråk.
Articles by Petter Gjersvik
Histopathologic reassessment of melanoma and other melanocytic skin lesions excised in 2009 and 2018–2019
- Petter Gjersvik,
- Marit B. Veierød,
- Alec Thompson,
- Krzysztof Grzyb,
- Katrine Høeg Liland,
- Nikolay Vazov,
- Ingrid Roscher,
- Assia V. Bassarova
26.10.2022:
The assessment of whether a pigmented skin lesion is benign or malignant is critical for the patient, further follow-up and epidemiological surveillance of cutaneous melanoma (1, 2). Final diagnosis of these lesions is based on histopathological findings, but histopathological diagnosis of pigmented...
More thinking is needed
- Petter Gjersvik
20.10.2022:
Sometimes diagnosis and treatment choices are obvious. More often, curiosity, reasoning and good judgement are required. Diagnoses are made on the basis of the patient's reported symptoms and the doctor's findings in clinical examinations and supplementary investigations. Sometimes the diagnosis...
A British dermatologist tells his story
- Petter Gjersvik
27.06.2022:
Alex Anstey Under the skin A dermatologist's fight to save the NHS, 350 pages. London: Whitefox Publishing Ltd, 2022. Price £9.99 ISBN 978-19-150-3616-2 Not many dermatologists write autobiographies. Alex Anstey is one of the few, and he writes well. Anstey is a former editor-in-chief for the...
The ability to express oneself
- Petter Gjersvik
08.11.2021:
The medical degree programme places too little emphasis on strengthening the students' ability to express themselves. Language is closely associated with thinking and cognitive processes. We need words to understand and communicate our perception of reality. Doctors in all specialties use speech and...
Abbreviations create distance
- Petter Gjersvik
27.09.2021:
If you wish to reach out to readers beyond your own professional community, you should use abbreviations sparingly. Many medical terms are long, and when they are frequently repeated in a text, the author might be tempted to use abbreviations, often in the form of acronyms. In many cases, such...
Many young people want to be a doctor
- Petter Gjersvik
19.08.2021:
The number of students in Norwegian medical schools will soon increase considerably. Will the number of young Norwegians who study medicine abroad, decrease to the same extent? Medicine is a popular. Approximately 3 200 students study medicine in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Tromsø, and nearly as...
Everything that can be said in English can be said in Norwegian
- Petter Gjersvik
21.04.2021:
Doctors should write and speak in a way that makes them understood. Finding good translations of English medical terms is easier than many people think. We use language to think and to record observations, thoughts and appraisals. We use language to be understood and to convey a message. Language...
Melanoma is malignant, moles are benign
- Petter Gjersvik
23.06.2020:
Pigmented skin lesions must be excised when malignancy is suspected. If there is no such suspicion, moles should generally be left alone. Many people are afraid of developing melanoma, which has a high risk of metastasis and a fatal outcome when the lesion exceeds a certain thickness (1). About two...