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Assessing the performance of aging surgeons.

February 22, 2019

Katlic MR, Coleman JA, Russell MM. JAMA. 2019;321(5):449-450.

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High-risk industries like aviation employ policies to require that practitioners retire from risky work at a certain age. This commentary advocates for individual rather than general approaches to assessing abilities of aging surgeons to practice safely.

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