By coincidence the norwegian health care minister has, during only a week, challenged all the country's doctors with moves that are dangerous near the limits of tolerance for medics.
23. January 2009 he presented the proposal that doctors should be deprived responsibility for the specialist training.
Three days later, he stands up in the country's largest newspaper, and tells everybody about how his son had help against kolikk-pain from the Snaasa-oldtimer; for eleven years ago.
The Snaasa-oldtimer is a renowned norwegian healer.
Lise Lotte Folge, Editor-in-chief of Today's Medicine did not like that; as most of the other norwegian medics.
The last to see red was biology professor Kristian Gundersen, and he was to argue strongly that it is most unprofessionally by the country's Health-boss to herald the Snaasa-oldtimer; in order to legitimize the treatment methods that have not been documented scientifically.
Gundersen has the support of the norwegian physician president, who is not particularly excited for The Snaasa Connection.
But something more, and far more remarkable, is about to happen in the relationship between the Health-chief and the country's doctors.
The proposal to impose a permanent two days nursinghome-service a the week for every norwegian doctor, is seen by the president in Allmennlegeforeningen as a declaration of war against the sick.
In reality it is, of course, a declaration of war against the doctors; unless the Health-baron is prepared to open the governments wallet, to compensate fully for the concomitant loss of income in the private offices of the medical doctors.
Most of us recognize clearly that any compensation will never happen.
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