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Late-Career Physicians: Ethical Considerations and Patient Safety Strategies

April 2018

Cognitive and physical changes are a normal aspect of aging, but in medical practice they can increase the risk of patient injuries and complicate the defense of medical malpractice claims. Various functions that are important for the safe practice of medicine deteriorate with age, including sequential processing, attention, logical analysis, hand-eye coordination, verbal and non-verbal learning, visual-spatial ability, inductive reasoning and verbal memory.

This article includes healthcare ethics content, which may help meet CME credit ethics requirements in some states.

CASE ONE AND TWO 
Accommodating Normal Age-Related Cognitive Changes
CASE THREE
Dealing with Dementia

 

 

April 2018
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