Would You Go to a 100-Year-Old Doctor? ArthurCaplan discusses the potential need for testing to ensure competency of aging physicians
Hi. I'm Art Caplan. I'm at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, where I run the Division of Medical Ethics.. A doctor asked,"How would you feel if your doctor was 100 years old?" That may seem a little extreme, but I think the point was that we're seeing more aging going on in the doctor workforce. I don't know how many people are practicing to 100 years of age — I suspect it's not many — but there are more and more older physicians.
Indeed, studies are ongoing to try to figure out why some of us do well in old age. Most of the studies are focused on why some of us don't do so well — say, Alzheimer's or Lewy body syndrome — but there is a subset of people who do very well. There must be a simple way to just recheck basic competency using a memory test, some sort of dexterity test, or a simple 20- or 30-minute examination annually or every other year, just to make sure that once you are older than 65, your skills have not slipped in a way that would harm patients or cause the risk of malpractice to increase. I know nobody likes to get tested, and I know I don't like to get tested.
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