Can a 100-year-old doctor safely practice medicine? Should older doctors be subject to cognitive testing? Here's what your colleagues are saying. MedTwitter
In their day-to-day work, doctors must utilize sophisticated cognitive skills and — depending on the specialty — fine-tuned manual dexterity. But these skills sometimes decline with age, leading to the conundrum of whether doctors can safely continue to practice medicine into their late sixties and beyond.by bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, tackled this question.
Younger physicians don't yet have the same amount of wisdom and experience, another noted."They need to put in their time to reach that level." And a medical student"loves" older doctors because"they're compassionate, experienced, and highly intelligent — I'd trust many of them with my life over some younger physicians."
One respondent described physicians and other healthcare professionals she works with who are in their seventies and eighties."You would be shocked to learn they are that old." On the other hand, she knows many in their fifties"who need to retire, due to physical and cognitive decline." Others chimed in with similar perspectives."There are some physicians who, despite their relative youth, are quite brilliant, skilled, kind, responsive to the patient's desires and needs, admired by their school's faculty and residents, and are charitable with their time as well. I met one at Johns Hopkins and I am grateful to have had him as my surgeon."Many readers balked at the idea of recertification testing beginning at age 65.
Another pointed out that,"before putting in new, non-evidence-based regulations," people should"think about doing a study looking at the signs and symptoms that predict the inability to practice medicine where the MD does not voluntarily give up practice. Bottom line: is it really a problem that there are a lot of physicians who, due to age, are not modifying their practice so that they are practicing within their capabilities? If so, let's see the studies.
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