The phrase "aging physicians" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to doctors who are getting older, often in discussions about healthcare, workforce demographics, or retirement planning.
Example: "The healthcare system is facing challenges due to the increasing number of aging physicians who are retiring."
Alternatives: "elderly doctors" or "mature physicians".
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.
In the presence of the many biomedical challenges of aging, physicians may be tempted to raise fewer psychosocial issues with their older patients than with their younger patients (Greene et al 1987) and respond more positively to psychosocial concerns in the young than in the old (Greene et al 1987).
Reply from Thad: As an aging physician who desired to stave off weight gain and the resultant risks (diabetes, etc)., I have found the pedometer to be a marvelous addition to my program.
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.
*** 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.
At the beginning of 2011 there were 11,621 working-age physicians with specialist licenses [ 1].
According to a physician survey from 2009, almost half of the working-age physicians worked in specialized health care and 21% in health centres [ 41].
Older (over 50 years of age) physicians and those with more practice experience (>15 years) were more influenced by the spouse's demand than their younger colleagues.
