Ã…pent brev til alle landets stortingsrepresentanter

Hei,

Først og fremst: Jeg har stor respekt for at abort er et vanskelig, moralsk og dypt personlig spørsmål. Jeg mener vi som samfunn må gjøre det vi kan for å sørge for at så få jenter som mulig blir nødt til å oppleve dette.

Jeg skriver til deg i dag om forslaget om å gi fastleger rett til å nekte å henvise kvinner videre til assistert befruktning, svangerskapsavbrudd samt skrive ut resept på nødvendig prevensjon.

Legene har allerede en reservasjonrett mot å utføre abort, en rett de har hatt siden 1975.  Den ordningen er god, og skaper ingen problemer verken for sykehus eller pasienter. Men det er en stor prinsipiell forskjell på å utføre et inngrep selv, og å henvise pasienter videre til en behandling de har lovfestet krav på. En lov som tillater fastleger å nekte å gi pasientene henvisning til lovlige helsetjenester er bare med på å gjøre det vanskeligere og mer tidkrevende å få helsehjelp for kvinnene som befinner seg i en slik situasjon.  Kvinner bør slippe denne merbelastningen.

Fastlegen er førstelinjetjeneste og den vi alle henvender oss til når vi har spørsmål om helsa vår. En allmennlege som har inngått en avtale med kommunen om å delta i fastlegeordningen har i dag plikt til å sørge for at pasientene får lovfestet helsehjelp. Skal vi ha det slik at fastleger selv skal få bestemme hvilke deler av norsk lov de vil hjelpe pasienten med? Jeg har respekt for at enkelte leger opplever deler av jobben sin som vanskelig, men her må vi veie legens behov mot pasientens behov og rettigheter. I en fastlegesituasjon er det pasientens behov som veie tyngst, ikke fastlegens.

Det er lettvint å hevde at saken kan løses ved å avtale bruk av andre leger når behovet oppstår. Ofte sier ikke en kvinne at temaet for timen er prevensjon eller abort når hun bestiller konsultasjon. Da vil hun måtte sendes ut av legekontoret igjen med beskjed om at hun må oppsøke en annen lege for å få hjelp. For en ung kvinne i en sårbar situasjon er dette en unødvendig tilleggsbelastning.

Det er umulig å kreve at kvinner på forhånd setter seg inn i hvilke reservasjoner fastlegen har siden vi ikke planlegger på forhånd at vi får behov for en henvisning som kan hjelpe oss å bli gravide, eller avslutte en uønsket graviditet.

Unge er ekstra sårbare siden de automatisk får morens fastlege. I tillegg kjøper og selger fastlegene pasientlister seg i mellom. Hva hvis din liste blir kjøpt av en fastlege som er mot p-piller eller abort?

For oss som er voksne og bor i urbane strøk vil neppe denne loven ha så mye å si, men hva med 15-åringen som er ufrivillig gravid i en liten bygd i Norge? Det er ikke fastlegen hennes som er den svake part her.

Dette dreier seg om om en kvinnes kropp og bør forbli hennes valg, uansett hvor hun bor i landet, og hvem hun har som fastlege.

Jeg spør derfor deg som stortingsrepresentant:

Vil du si ja til et vedtak som innskrenker norske kvinners rett til å få henvisning til assistert befruktning, abort eller få resept på ønsket prevensjon hos fastlegen sin? Ja/Nei

Jeg ser frem til å høre fra deg!

Med vennlig hilsen

Ingeborg Engh

Jeg håper at alle som leser bloggen min kan gå inn på Susanne Kaluza sin blogg og sende det samme brevet til alle på stortinget. Vi kan ikke få et land der man ikke kan få helt enkle resepter av legen sin.

Keep it together

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Party!

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These are the only two pictures I took all weekend.

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Friday we did some last minute building and finally moved the rest of the tools and paint down in the basement. Then we had champagne with my parents in my glasses that I inherited from my grandmother.

Saturday we cleaned the entire apartment for the first time. We actually scrubbed the floors, removed the black stains and rearranged the furniture. We even managed to buy food before the first guests arrived 🙂 the party was a great success! Lots of people (more than enough space for 40 people), cake, salmon rolls, cocktails, champagne, cool people and colours 🙂 the last guests left at 5 in the morning, so Sunday was mostly spent in bed.

But we went out for brunch at Grunerløkka and then we had pai (don’t try the cake, only the pai) at The Nighthawk Diner. We walked through the market stalls, but didn’t find anything and then went home to clean the apartment again. Surprisingly it takes a lot of time to clean a bit apartment. I tink we will hire a cleaner, so we don’t have to clean all the time.

We are now “finished” remodelling the apartment. We have solved the biggest problems and will continue to fix things in a slower pace. We both need more spare time now and to do other things. We have a new to do-list of everything that is left and we will do a couple a week, but not four days a week. And we will start working on how the aparment should actually look like, furniture and things.

False discovery rate and type 2 error

I think we all should know more about false discovery rate and type 2 error.

Type II Error

Do you know this graph? It shows the balance between type 1 (incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis) and type 2 (failure to reject false null hypothesis) error in statistics. Imagine you have done an analysis to see if any of your genetic markers are connected with the gene you are looking for. When you decide your cut off value (or where you p-value should be), you actually decide the balance you are willing to accept between type 1 and type 2 error.

You see, if you decide that you want a cut off value of 0.05, that might mean that you get 14 significant results (the blue ones in the graph). But that will also mean that there are 18 significant results you didn’t find (the red) because you were too afraid of any of your blue results to be a false positive (a significant result from chance and not actually from the data).

This isn’t so difficult when you do simple tests, but if you do very many tests, the problem increases. And right now at work, I am facing the problem of this after 4500 tests. How do I find a good cut off value so I actually find the significant results, but can trust that they are true positives?

I will keep you updated.

Male nudity, gen Y and mass shootings

A wonderful video from Up Worthy demanding more male nudity. They say that they can live with all the female nudity if they can only get some male nudity to match. So please 🙂

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Then a really good article on why generation Y (born late 1970’s to mid 1990’s) are so unhappy. I highly recommend you read it. It has to do with expectations,really:

1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out — just dive in somewhere.

2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. You’re another completely inexperienced young person who doesn’t have all that much to offer yet. You can become special by working really hard for a long time.

3) Ignore everyone else. Other people’s grass seeming greener is no new concept, but in today’s image crafting world, other people’s grass looks like a glorious meadow. The truth is that everyone else is just as indecisive, self-doubting, and frustrated as you are, and if you just do your thing, you’ll never have any reason to envy others.

 

The last is a video of a terrible statistic; of all the mass killings (shootings) of more than 12 people (not including the killer) that have happened in the USA, half have happened the last 6 years. The other half took 50 years. That’s crazy. As the news reporter says, it is no wonder that we are getting used to this.

Lister

Dette har jeg gjort i dag:

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Satt på gulvlister der det burde vært lister

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Satt på nye gulvlister på kjøkkenet

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Satt på lyslister foran lampene under overskapene på kjøkkenet

Nå mangler bare de to gulvlistene som tørker og så er vi helt ferdige med lister i leiligheten! I morgen skal vi ordne de siste listene og så skal vi begynne med å fuge sprekker på kjøkkenet og dekke litt mer oransj her og der. Mindre enn en uke til fest nå!

The plan

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This is my life plan. This is what I will be doing the next 2.5 years. I am the top line and Nicky is the bottom one. You probably don’t understand what it means, but the important bits are:

  • I will try to submit my first manuscript in June 2014.
  • I will try to submit my second one in September 2014.
  • Then I will a whole year to work on my last manuscript before my defence in December 2015.

This autumn I still have 15 credits to finish in addition to the analyses I’m doing, so you can see I am happy I didn’t become troop leader in Longship or committed to anything else. I still have Komité Speiding and a couple (five) projects there, but none of them will finish before Christmas, so I’m good. And there is only 1.5 weeks until the house warming party, so not much left of fixing the apartment either.

Tuesday 17. Sept

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It suddenly started raining this weekend and autumn is over us at last. So now both my top and sweater are wool. Sweater is hand made in Shetland, but bought in Pisa. The trousers are from my mother.

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And it’s the first day in boots! (Merrel)

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And I chose a hat instead of scarf today. This is merch from Speidertinget last year in Geiranger.

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