Christer Mjåset: 4 questions you should always ask your doctor
Christer Mjåset: Cztery pytania, które należy zadać swojemu lekarzowi
Christer Mjåset, M.D. is a neurosurgeon, author, columnist and lecturer who currently works as a Harkness fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston studying value-based health care models. Full bio
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that people like me need your help.
potrzebują waszej pomocy.
about a patient of mine.
o jednej z moich pacjentek.
of hospital a few times
from a cervical disc,
dysku odcinka szyjnego,
before the consultation,
na wyniki z rezonansu magnetycznego
are standardized, and they're quick.
stanowią szybką, standardową procedurę.
past the trachea,
into the internal carotid artery.
tchawicy szyjnej.
the disc and the prolapse
razem z przepukliną
and the nerve root
i korzeni nerwowych,
kilka milimetrów poniżej.
is the damage to the cord,
from the neck down.
she fell silent.
for me and for her.
right there and then?
like this woman,
pulling it out of the nerve root canal
I wanted to operate on her.
is the most fun part of my job.
he loves to just sit and draw
po prostu siedzieć, rysować
paying for the house
restrictions on what to do.
to look their patient in the eye
for the person having the operation.
in the back of your throat.
of tonsillectomies in Norway
wycięcia migdałków
is that there is twice the chance
because this is for children --
than in Trondheim.
in both regions are the same.
no difference, but there is.
for this condition.
tego schorzenia.
rate in Møre og Romsdal
rate in Stavanger.
niż w innych częściach kraju?
than elsewhere in the country?
is the procedures performed
na jasno niebiesko,
are light green.
in the private clinics
to treat the patients.
that the difference of treatment effect
że jeśli chodzi o skuteczność,
and operations for the knee --
a leczeniem operacyjnym
of the procedures performed
even in Stavanger.
for treatments in the world
of treatment decisions,
the treatment that they need,
once in my career.
these words from a patient.
you'll get a "no" from a doctor
with about the same "no" rate
or suggests something
the reason for this is?
for medical advice.
in the winter time,
whenever he went jogging.
I questioned him thoroughly,
that he probably had a degenerated disc
swimming instead of jogging,
to be more selective
through my insurance at work."
he was also, after all, my friend.
to see how bad it looks back there."
MRI scans?" I said.
interpretować zdjęcia
"It could be cancer."
of my colleagues at work,
and quit the jogging.
I met him again and he said,
with the same symptoms had an MRI?
would quadruple, maybe even more.
the spot on that list
also turns down, sometimes,
to get diagnosed or treated.
a difficult question to ask.
what to do with you,
now a general practitioner,
sanatorium as a little girl,
had been negative all along.
on nothing but wrong suspicion.
confronting him about it.
health care service.
from the doctor about what to do.
responsibility on you.
with your doctor
decisions on where to go.
you're in a doctor's office,
attached to this operation?"
will have worsening of pain symptoms.
or even a rehemorrhage
also experience permanent hoarseness
in the arms or even legs.
over some time
istnieje nikła szansa,
that you will get well.
wants to send you to an MRI,
of you, 20 percent,
jakie podjąć kroki.
not only have made your life
and probably even better,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christer Mjåset - NeurosurgeonChrister Mjåset, M.D. is a neurosurgeon, author, columnist and lecturer who currently works as a Harkness fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston studying value-based health care models.
Why you should listen
Christer Mjåset, M.D. holds a position as a researcher at the Oslo University Hospital analyzing data from The Norwegian Spine Registry and as a lecturer at the Department of Health Management and Economics, University of Oslo, where he teaches in a leadership program for young physicians. Mjåset was president of the Norwegian Junior Doctors 2015-2019 and the Vice President of the Norwegian Medical Association 2017-2019. This work led him to be involved with the international Choosing Wisely campaign which seeks to advance a national dialogue avoiding unnecessary medical tests, treatments and procedures. From 2017-2019 he was responsible for implementing the campaign in Norway
Mjåset is a published author of five fictional books and several short stories. He won the Oslo City Cultural Scholarship for writers in 2006. He got his medical degree and bachelor’s degree in literature and philosophy at University of Oslo, both in 2000.
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