There are plenty of retirement calculators on the internet using your financial health as barometers of retirement. For those that want to supplement your retirement decision, take the following quiz.
- The patient is “digitized” means digoxin rather than an electronic medical record.
- You know the difference between ouabain and digitoxin.
- Your mentors are Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare.
- Your go to analgesic is Zomax.
- Your peptic ulcer patients all go on heavy cream (Sippy diet).
- You were the treating physician at the Legionaire’s conference in 1979.
- You still carry two or more pens “just in case.”
- You are comfortable with terms like “thymol turbidity” and “Wasserman testing.”
- On the radiology order form you search for “pneumoencephalogram.”
- You enter the room and are surprised nobody offers their seat to you.
Score:
10/10: Methuselah Doc: go straight to retirement and offer your services to a Medical History Museum.
7-9/10: Research 55 and older communities: notify your colleagues of impending obsolescence.
4-6/10: Double your CME: spend more time with millennial docs.
0-3/10: Rest easy: proclaim you’re youth in the twitterverse and toss out a few Smiley emojis. You are low on the Obsolescence curve.