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..It is of great importance to investigate these factors because this information may be used in the recruitment/admittance process to medical schools, and possibly to improve medical education...

..Caesar Boeck was a hard-working clinician and histologist, the founder of modern dermatovenerology in Norway. This article gives an account of Caesar Boeck's family background, his scientific career and his personality...

..The aim of the present study was to determine whether cancer patients had a higher suicide risk between 1960 and 1999...

..He contributed to the entire fields of obstetrics and gynaecology, in particular in founding Monatsschrift für Geburtshülfe und Gynaekologie, the predecessor of this journal...

..Sänger was closely linked to Norway, both professionally and personally. This paper describes his work as gynaecologist and his relationship to Norway, especially his friendship with Nina and Edvard Grieg...

..This study compares the rate of suicide among trained physicians, dentists, nurses, police officers and theologians with the rate among other university graduates and the general population according to sex, age and time period...

..However, the attitude in Norway to refugees in general and Jews in particular was hostile, mainly because of fear of unemployment. Prejudice and xenophobia were of importance, also in the medical profession...

..This ingenious instrument was demonstrated in Munich in 1915 and was gradually quite extensively used nearly all over the world. However, a great deal of controversy has surrounded his forceps, also in Norway...

..A particular problem in previous research has been methodological shortcomings. There is need for further systematic research, and this review points out some strategies of research...

..As it turned out, nine foreign physicians were allowed in, most of them from Czechoslovakia, four of them of professorial rank. Soon after the German occupation of Norway in 1940, Nazi authorities revoked their medical licenses...

..PhD students were expected to complete their work towards the doctorate in three years, and funding was only provided for this period...

..Special attention should be paid to thrombosis when employing restraints in psychiatric wards. Further systematic research into physical restraints in psychiatry is clearly needed...

..During his last years he developed symptoms of cardiac failure, and it was probably an increasing cardiac failure that led to the cardiac arrest that ended his life...

..Edvard Bull's patience, great human and sympathetic insight, and the fact that he from the very beginning saw Ibsen as an individual and not only the diseases, represents a thought-provoking example...

..However, they contacted a psychologist or psychiatrist rarely, even when reporting serious suicidal ideation...

..This story illustrates an important message: What should we require from sources before we accept a piece of information?..

..Medical doctors warned against using them. It was a so-called arcanum, i.e. the producer kept the content secret. The use of such drugs came out of control in the 1890ies and was a serious community problem...

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..This paper demonstrates the importance of scrutinising patient files as a supplement to register data, as is the case today, too...

..Reality weakness was the most decisive trait for aggravation in suicidal ideation, and this personality trait needs further study in suicidal research and clinical awareness...

..We have, however, only limited knowledge of obstetric practices in Norway in the decades before the Birth Registry was established. One important source is the annual reports of the Maternity Clinic in Oslo...

..Given the sparse literature on the topic, there is a need to know more about student identification with the role of doctor, particularly with respect to the possible impact of pre-existing and medical school factors...

..Neuroticism, conscientiousness, and lack of support from one's partner and colleagues, appeared to be predictive of this stress...

..This study examines whether both personality types and traits predict stress during medical school training...

..Independent predictors of serious suicidal ideation were marital status, subjective health complaints, reality weakness, anxiety, and depression. Serious suicidal ideation was mainly attributed to personal and family problems...

..High levels of stress have been attributed to the conditions of police work, but there is little empirical evidence for this...

..This is the first longitudinal study which has identified predictors of sustained high levels of life satisfaction among medical students...

..Self-prescribing among doctors is common, but no longitudinal studies have documented this issue. We studied the self-prescribing behaviour among young Norwegian physicians and the predictors of self-prescribing...