When Should a Clinician Retire (Ethics/Risk Management)

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As the aging population increases, new health enhancing strategies and nutrition have made age 80 the new age 60. Physicians are practicing routinely into their 80's without much impedance. Hospital staffs have begun to impose neurocognitive testing (in contradiction to Federal Law) which discriminates against a particular age-group of physicians simply relating to age and without taking into account all parameters of physician health. This presentation discusses current federal discrimination law and other areas which can impact individual physician livelihood and well-being.

Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Understand how to use neurocognitive testing (NCT) as a method of determining fitness for physician practice
• Understand essential components of a late career practitioner policy, involved age-related mandatory NCT
• Evaluate the impact on a group practice
• Identify strategies to help maintain functional capacity in the aging process