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ArticleNeurology. Clinical practice2021

Cognitive Impairment in Aging Physicians: Current Challenges and Possible Solutions.

Gayatri Devi, Darren R Gitelman, Daniel Press, Kirk R Daffner

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Article in Neurology. Clinical practice, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Can a doctor be too old to practice medicine?Frontiers in health services · 2025
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  3. A model for the cognitive assessment of physicians.Frontiers in public health · 2025
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  5. Radiologist age and diagnostic errors.Emergency radiology · 2023
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  6. Can You Be Too Old To Practice Medicine?Structural heart : the journal of the Heart Team · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Gayatri DeviPark Avenue Neurology (GD), New York City, NY; Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (DRG), Chicago, IL; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (DP), Boston, MA; and Brigham and Women's Hospital (KRD), Boston, MA.
Darren R GitelmanPark Avenue Neurology (GD), New York City, NY; Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (DRG), Chicago, IL; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (DP), Boston, MA; and Brigham and Women's Hospital (KRD), Boston, MA.
Daniel PressPark Avenue Neurology (GD), New York City, NY; Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (DRG), Chicago, IL; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (DP), Boston, MA; and Brigham and Women's Hospital (KRD), Boston, MA.
Kirk R DaffnerPark Avenue Neurology (GD), New York City, NY; Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (DRG), Chicago, IL; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (DP), Boston, MA; and Brigham and Women's Hospital (KRD), Boston, MA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aging physicians are at a higher risk of cognitive impairment, undermining patient safety and unraveling physicians' careers. Neurologists, occupational health physicians, and psychiatrists will participate in both health system policy decisions and individual patient evaluations. We address cognitive impairment in aging physicians and attendant risks and benefits. If significant cognitive impairment is found after an appropriate evaluation, precautions to confidentially support physicians' practicing safely for as long as possible should be instituted. Understanding that there is heterogeneity and variability in the course of cognitive disorders is crucial to supporting cognitively impaired, practicing physicians. Physicians who are no longer able to practice clinically have other meaningful options.

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PMID33842070
PMCPMC8032410

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