Vascular surgery in Norway

Abstract

Norway is beautiful! I can make that statement without bias. Fjords with perpendicular walls, sometimes several thousand feet high, cut deeply into the rugged West Coast facing the Atlantic. Rivers and waterfalls chisel a variety of valleys and canyons through rocky mountains. Reindeer roam the tundras, moose are abundant and pose a danger to traffic during the winter; bears, wolves and lynxes are there, but rarely visibly. At the North coast eagles and whales can be spotted. Winters are long with little daylight and during the summer the sun does not disappear below the horizon. Norway is more than 2000 km long: North Cape is as far from the capital Oslo as Rome. There is plenty of space for 4.5 million Norwegians, mostly Social Democrats, who love the outdoors: cross country skiing, hiking, hunting and fishing. The king and his family are very popular and symbolise the country's independent status, obtained from Denmark in 1814 and from Sweden in 1905. The relatively high standard of living in this young state is closely linked to the success of the off-shore oil