Re: AMA Older Doctors Providing Substandard Care Re: Diagnosed with Syndrome X today...now what??

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:41:33 -0400, Jenny <lottadata@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Chief wrote:
This is all speculative without an ounce of proof to back it up. Yet,
Jenny states it as if it's a fact. Typical.

Don't believe the hype.

Kurt



I tend to think there might be something to this. Folks in highly
technical fields have seen simular problems with their aging work force.
Keeping up in some fields is almost impossible without some kind of
regular formal training.

Last I looked, doctors were still using their required training to go to
Maui for a two week conference on cronic hangnails at tax payers expense.


The American Medical Association seems to agree with me, not Kurt:

March 7, 2005
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/site/free/prsb0307.htm

From the article:
Older doctors are not keeping up to date clinically, study says
Research shows that more experienced physicians are providing less
effective care. But the authors say the problem is not about age.

By Myrle Croasdale, AMNews staff. March 7, 2005.

Robert H. Fletcher, MD, considers himself an "older physician." A
professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and the former editor of
the Annals of Internal Medicine, he graduated from Harvard in 1966.

So it was with a sympathetic heart that he co-authored a study showing
that doctors in practice for longer periods of time are more likely to
possess less factual knowledge, are less likely to follow appropriate
standards of care and more likely to have poorer patient outcomes.



--Jenny

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Hi Jenny,

I am very glad to see a study that confirms an opinion that I have
held for some time, if only because I have many close friends and
family members who are doctors. And, it is good to see you citing a
substantive authority....

As a suggestion, I would urge everyone with these sorts of opinions
critical of some within the medical profession to make clear that we
are expressing our opinions only, unless we give such authority as
reference. That would go a long way toward defusing criticism from
some of your detractors. After all, everyone is entitled to have an
opinion, just as everyone is entitled to express disagreement with
opinions. Establishing something as a kind of proven fact is
altogether another matter.. I offer the foregoing as a suggestion
only, in a spirit of greatest goodwill toward you personally.

Will, T2
.

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