Unlike for many other professions, there is no age limit for practicing medicine. But the debate continues on whether assessments based on age should be required. MedTwitter
Unlike for many other professions, there is no age limit for practicing medicine. According to international standards, airplane pilots, for example, who are responsible for the safety of many human lives, must retire by the age of 60 if they work alone, or 65 if they have a co-pilot. In Brazil, however, this age limit does not exist for pilots or physicians.
No longer working is also not in the cards for Angelita Habr-Gama, MD, who, at 89 years old, is one of the oldest physicians in current practice. With a career spanning more than seven decades, she is a world reference in coloproctology. She was the first woman to become a surgical resident at the HCFMUSP, where she later founded the coloproctology specialty and created the first residency program for the specialty.
Katlic defends screening programs for elderly physicians, which already are in effect at the company for which he works, LifeBridge Health, and various others in the United States."We do [screen elderly physicians at LifeBridge Health], and so do a few dozen other [US institutions], but there are hundreds [of healthcare institutions] that do not conduct this screening," he pointed out.
to learn what physicians think about the age limit for practicing their professions is evidence that the subject is a present concern. Of a total of 1641 participants, 57% were age 60 or older, 17% were between 50 and 59 years, and 12% were between 40 and 49 years. Among all participants, 51% were against these limitations, 17% approved of the idea for all specialties, and 32% believed the restriction was appropriate only for some specialties.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Klajner stopped seeing patients in person under the recommendation of his son, Sidney Klajner, MD, who is also a physician. The elder Klajner began exploring telemedicine, which opened a whole new world of possibilities."I have conducted several online visits to provide educational instruction to mothers returning home post delivery, for example," he toldedition. The time to stop is not something that concerns Klajner.
The absence of guidelines increases individual responsibility, as well as vulnerability."Consciously, physicians will not put patients at risk if they do not have the competence to care for them or to perform a surgical procedure," Clystenes Odyr Soares Silva, MD, PhD, adjunct professor of pulmonology of the Federal University of São Paulo School of Medicine , São Paulo, Brazil, told."Your peers will tell you if you are no longer able," he added.
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