The phrase "aging physician" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a physician who is getting older, often in discussions about healthcare, retirement, or the experience of older medical professionals.
Example: "The aging physician has decades of experience, but there are concerns about how his age may affect his practice."
Alternatives: "elderly doctor" or "senior physician".
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As physicians are currently working longer due to diminished incomes, the aging physician is another problem currently plaguing medicine.
An aging physician workforce [ 15, 16], increased numbers of part-time physicians, and younger physicians who view work-life balance as essential [ 17] will pressure academic medical centers to recruit and retain talented clinical faculty members.
One reasonable interpretation of these data is that they reveal differing attitudes towards enhancement as opposed to restoration: when considering younger adults, physicians viewed cognitive enhancers as an unnecessary enhancement, but when evaluating older adults who may be experiencing the normal cognitive decline associated with aging, physicians viewed the treatment as restorative.
ACG, patient age, physician and center were found to explain a significant proportion of the variance.
Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate sex differences, adjusting for age, physician remuneration, and rurality.
Also, a consultant such as a geriatrician or other old age physician may be invited to provide state of the art advice.
16, 18, 37– 41 Other factors that can influence medication adherence relate to the physician, including sex, race, and age; physician treatment preferences; and the overall nature of the physician patient alliance and communication, 14 including the congruence of patients' and physicians' preferences for patient involvement in decision-making.
*** In the middle ages, physicians justified their appetite for gold by using it as a constituent of expensive medication regimes (it is still there in the formulary today, listed between goitre and golfer's elbow, as an intramuscular injection to ease rheumatoid arthritis).
After the establishment of the space age physicians, human factors engineers, neurologist and psychologists and their special attention to work on people's capability to meet up the physical, psychological, neuroscience and interpersonal strains of working in space, it has been regarded as an issue that seeks urgent consideration.
In the Physician 2008 Study, the study population included 83% of Finnish working-age physicians.
