Aging and Relevance in Academic Medicine

How have 65 years passed in the blink of an eye? I have often written about my mentors, my respect for them, and how I held them in considerable awe. I think of how they stayed relevant through the years, even though they physically declined. I recall one of them telling me, “I stood where you are now, and you will stand where I am.” They understood my situation as a young physician climbing the ladder of position, practice, and scholarship, but I failed to understand their predicament, which is now mine: how to stay relevant as an aging academic physician.
Source: Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research