Erik Fosse

Erik Torgeir Fosse (born 2 December 1950)[1] is a Norwegian surgeon, lieutenant colonel, political activist, solidarity worker and musician.

Fosse worked as advisor to the Surgeon General of Norway and as instructor in war surgery for the Norwegian Defence Joint Medical Services from 1991 to 2013.

He represented Norway in the Human Factors and Medicine panel of the Research and Technology Organization in NATO for fifteen years, chairing it from 2011 to 2013.

[10] During the 2008–2009 Gaza War, Fosse and Mads Gilbert worked at the Al-Shifa Hospital from January, and were in the initial week the only western observers of the Israeli attack who reported to the international media.

From our arrival in Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on the afternoon of Dec 31, 2008, until this morning, we have witnessed the most horrific war injuries in men, women, and children of all ages in numbers almost too large to comprehend.

The wounded, dying, and dead have streamed into the overcrowded hospital in endless convoys of ambulances and private cars, and wrapped in blankets in the caring arms of others.

[10] Fosse has also been involved in the debate over the hospital structure in Norway, and has advocated more centralization which he thinks high-tech and advanced medicine requires.