Heard this week

“The difficulty with local peer review is that there is the possibility that a group of young surgeons may have an incentive to declare an older surgeon is no longer capable. While I personally feel this is unlikely, the potential is a real concern for older surgeons.”

—Paul Schenarts, MD, FACS, a trauma surgeon and professor at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in Omaha, weighs in on competence assessment for aging physicians in a recent Reuters article.