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The question Icelandic neurologists get asked most frequently by colleagues visiting our island of 300 000 inhabitants in the North Atlantic is: "How many neurologists are practicing in Iceland?" The answer always raises an eyebrow. There are 13 more or less full-time neurologists, includi...
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ftlandspitaliuni:oai:www.hirsla.lsh.is:2336/13084 2023-05-15T16:43:01+02:00 Iceland Jakobsson, Finnbogi Olafsson, Elias 2007-08-02 YES http://hdl.handle.net/2336/13084 en eng Blackwell Science http://pn.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/7/2/127 Pract Neurol 2007, 7(2):127-9 1474-7766 17430879 NEU12 http://hdl.handle.net/2336/13084 Iceland Nervous System Diseases Neurology Population Article 2007 ftlandspitaliuni 2022-05-29T08:21:00Z The question Icelandic neurologists get asked most frequently by colleagues visiting our island of 300 000 inhabitants in the North Atlantic is: "How many neurologists are practicing in Iceland?" The answer always raises an eyebrow. There are 13 more or less full-time neurologists, including 10 working at the only university hospital. This relative abundance of neurologists of one for every 25 000 contrasts with one for every 170 000 in the UK, for example.1 The principal hospital in Iceland, the Landspitali University Hospital in the capital Reykjavik, serves as the primary hospital for at least two thirds of the population and as the referral hospital for the rest of the population. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland North Atlantic Hirsla - Landspítali University Hospital research archive |
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The question Icelandic neurologists get asked most frequently by colleagues visiting our island of 300 000 inhabitants in the North Atlantic is: "How many neurologists are practicing in Iceland?" The answer always raises an eyebrow. There are 13 more or less full-time neurologists, including 10 working at the only university hospital. This relative abundance of neurologists of one for every 25 000 contrasts with one for every 170 000 in the UK, for example.1 The principal hospital in Iceland, the Landspitali University Hospital in the capital Reykjavik, serves as the primary hospital for at least two thirds of the population and as the referral hospital for the rest of the population. |
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