Stories on Favorite Doctors Retiring

Hi,
My name is Angie Marek, and I'm a healthcare reporter with
SmartMoney magazine. I'm currently working on a piece on how many
physicians are retiring much earlier than they once did, and how that
trend is affecting the supply of doctors in the U.S., especially since
there are already shortages of doctors in some keys parts of the
county. Right now, I'm looking to connect with a patient who had an
important doctor in his/her life retire, and then had trouble getting
established-- or getting a timely appointment-- with a new physician.
Please e-mail me at amarek@hearst.com or call me at 212-373-9333
if you have this type of story and would be interested in speaking
wtih me for this piece. I think this is a very important phenomenon,
especially for people with chronic conditions who depend on close
contact with a trusted physician, so I hope to hear from some of you
soon.
Sincerely,
Angie Marek

Angie, last night on sixty minutes there was a story about retired
doctors who couldnt stand to play golf and decided to work in free
clinics. Right now there are about sixty of these clinics around the
country. I think less doctors are retiring because they dont know what
to do with their spare time.

Loretta

Angie Marek wrote:

> I'm a healthcare reporter with SmartMoney magazine.
> I'm currently working on a piece on how many physicians
> are retiring much earlier than they once did, and how that
> trend is affecting the supply of doctors in the U.S.,


You're too late. <g>
Same story was published in the last issue of one of
the two arthritis magazines.

.... Energizer bunny has the runs -- keeps going & going & ....

Loretta Eisenberg <sassybklynlady@webtv.net> wrote:

> Angie, last night on sixty minutes there was a story about retired
> doctors who couldnt stand to play golf and decided to work in free
> clinics. Right now there are about sixty of these clinics around the
> country. I think less doctors are retiring because they dont know what
> to do with their spare time.

My doctor is going to retire early for the same reason he advised me
to retire early. He said that all the research showed that people who
retired early lived longer.

--
Chris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
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On 10 Jul 2007 09:35:34 GMT, Chris Malcolm <cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
wrote:

>Loretta Eisenberg <sassybklynlady@webtv.net> wrote:
>
>> Angie, last night on sixty minutes there was a story about retired
>> doctors who couldnt stand to play golf and decided to work in free
>> clinics. Right now there are about sixty of these clinics around the
>> country. I think less doctors are retiring because they dont know what
>> to do with their spare time.
>
>My doctor is going to retire early for the same reason he advised me
>to retire early. He said that all the research showed that people who
>retired early lived longer.


The threat of retirement is not new. I used to fly with a doctor
that said if Medicare was passed he would quit.

A few years later he said he did not know why he opposed
Medicare, his income had quadrupled..

Many people ahould have retired much sooner. I had
to work until I was xcompletely down. The
legal system gsve most of what I had accumulated to others.

Yes, so many should retire sooner and then develop
a secondary career if healh permits.

Some docs have retired and made great missionaries.

There is a jockeying going on for power. Saw it on CNN at 1pm
today. If the elephant fight, the ants are the ones that get
trampled.

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