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The ongoing ‘aging physicians’ dilemma: Is a policy necessary?
According to the AMA, nearly a quarter of physicians actively practicing in the United States in 2015 were age 65 or older. In a world where longer life spans and delayed retirement have become commonplace, this statistic is not particularly shocking, but it points to a question that hospital medical staffs continually struggle to answer: When physicians reach a certain “advanced age,” should they be required to undergo some sort of regular evaluation to make sure their cognitive and physical skills are still up to par?
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