The physician in retirement: transition and opportunity.
Physicians have been known to procrastinate and deny problems about retirement and the inevitability of aging beyond employability. The transition from what they have devoted their life to practicing, coupled with anxiety about just getting old and older than most people is enough to precipitate sadness, if not sober bereavement.
Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital; Watertown, USA.
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