title: When should surgeons retire?
abstract: Everyone ages, and so do surgeons. No one seemed to mind that Professor Michael DeBakey was 88 years old and still performing open heart surgery when he operated on the Russian President Boris Yeltsin.1 But is there a point beyond which the surgeon's age becomes a risk factor?
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authors.lastname: Buccimazza