Author information from the last article
E-post: ragnhild.orstavik@tidsskriftet.no
Ragnhild Ørstavik er assisterende sjefredaktør i Tidsskriftet. Hun er dr.med. og har en bistilling som seniorforsker ved Folkehelseinstituttet.
Articles by Ragnhild Ørstavik
Artificial intelligence in medical publishing
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
09.10.2024:
Scientific journals are now asking authors to specify whether, and if so, how, they have used artificial intelligence to write articles. The scientific journal Nature recently reported on a Japanese research group that had published an article on the arXiv preprint server. Not only was the preprint...
Help with writing
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
19.08.2024:
If you have not written a scientific paper before, you need guidance. The Journal is now launching the website tastaturet.no (in English: the keyboard), which gives simple advice on the different stages of the process. Many good books have been written about writing. My personal favourite is William...
Texas: the Wild West
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
26.02.2024:
The abortion restrictions in the United States are having an adverse effect on women's health and healthcare personnel. Yeniifer Alvarez, known as Yeni, was 27 years old and 31 weeks pregnant when she died of pulmonary oedema in July 2022. The fetus could not be saved either (1). According to her...
Words that kill
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
12.12.2023:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrated its 75 th anniversary on 10 December this year. Dehumanisation poses a threat to the continued protection of these essential rights. '… We […] learned that many of the German mass attacks were made by boys, […] arm in arm […]' The above quote is...
Men also need bathroom breaks
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
14.08.2023:
Everyone needs to take part in the discourse about our well-being in the workplace. 'What do I do if my pager goes off when I'm on the toilet?' She hadn't said anything up to this point, sitting tucked away in the corner, but now she was asking the question on all of our lips. It was the early 1990s...
Family ties
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
31.05.2023:
Case studies involving genetic disorders concern more than just the patient. Clinicians and the editors of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association must therefore exercise particular caution when publishing such material. Imagine a patient who has taken a genetic test for hereditary breast...
A time for hope
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
28.03.2023:
Hoping is more than believing that all will eventually be well. In the Christian tradition, Easter is the season of hope. In this issue of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, Odd Terje Brustugun explains how hope still has a role in doctors' encounters with seriously ill patients (1)...
Back to the days of matchsticks?
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
16.01.2023:
Despite the low temperatures in Norway, we are not used to being cold. But the persistently high electricity prices may also trigger the fuel poverty phenomenon here too. In Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale 'The Little Match Girl', New Year's Eve is being celebrated in the fine homes of...