In my experience, older doctors simply... get old.
They lose enthusiasm and energy. They are inclined to study less. They perform fewer procedures due to diminishing motor, visual-spatial and cognitive skills.
They suffer the same ailments as their patients - hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, dementia; divorce, overwork, errant children (that's a whole category of grievance and burden !) as well as sundry personal issues.
There is the drudgery. Paperwork. After a few decades you have seen it all: the rare cases don't excite as much. They are just another presentation of the human condition.
Finally,medicine is a hierarchical discipline, younger practitioners are discouraged from questioning (dubious) decisions made by their seniors.
Older practitioners compensate for these deficits with an accumulated body of experience that a younger doctor simply does have.
The best age(s) to be a doctor is mid-thirties to early fifties. Just like most other professions.
They lose enthusiasm and energy. They are inclined to study less. They perform fewer procedures due to diminishing motor, visual-spatial and cognitive skills. They suffer the same ailments as their patients - hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, dementia; divorce, overwork, errant children (that's a whole category of grievance and burden !) as well as sundry personal issues.
There is the drudgery. Paperwork. After a few decades you have seen it all: the rare cases don't excite as much. They are just another presentation of the human condition.
Finally,medicine is a hierarchical discipline, younger practitioners are discouraged from questioning (dubious) decisions made by their seniors.
Older practitioners compensate for these deficits with an accumulated body of experience that a younger doctor simply does have.
The best age(s) to be a doctor is mid-thirties to early fifties. Just like most other professions.