May 7, 2025
Time for a surgical skills check? Inside the ACS stance on aging physicians
• US surgeons have no mandated retirement age. According to the Aging Surgeon Program, “a patient death or serious negative event are currently the only things that prompt action to prevent a surgeon from practicing.”
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