HealthQuiet 40d · day 40
Advice columnist weighs age concerns in surgery: should 80-year-old ophthalmologist retire?
R. Eric Thomas addresses reader's dilemma about trusting an aging friend-physician with cataract surgery.
What to know
- A reader has written to advice columnist R. Eric Thomas with a conflict between patient safety concerns and personal loyalty: their ophthalmologist friend, nearly 80, wants to perform cataract surgery on them.
- The core dilemma is whether raising age-related fitness concerns with the physician will destroy a long friendship.
- The column explores the intersection of medical competence, aging, professional responsibility, and interpersonal trust.
“I know that if I share my concern with him, it will end our friendship.”
Reader (unnamed), Patient and friend · MassLive
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