Should Rad Oncs be allowed to work past age 50?

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jondunn said:
It's time for CMS to shut this **** down
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50? Ok bro 🙄

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Part time by 50, that is the goal. If for some reason job market perks up (seems to be a signal - I see more $2000 locums then before), then part time or locums will be nice way to fade out
 
Realistically, if you could make the age 70, it would be a huge service to the field and much more viable/common sense to do than 50 @jondunn

There are many septuagenarians out there still practicing/doing locums who need to be told to hang it up
 
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w00tz said:
Thought you could work for evicore anywhere. Hear kids crying, dogs barking, microwaves beeping, toilets flushing in the background on P2P calls all the time
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Evicore won't hire you as an "assistant medical director" (AMD) unless you have nice reliable broadband internet at home. The P2P calls are all routed across the Evicore network into Cisco network connected telephony devices inside each P2P person's house. You get a laptop, headset, Cisco phone, and special Cisco routing device which puts your Evicore equipment across a secure VPN that you can quite literally access anywhere on the planet with an internet connection that's at least 20 Mbps up/down.
 
RealSimulD said:
Part time by 50, that is the goal. If for some reason job market perks up (seems to be a signal - I see more $2000 locums then before), then part time or locums will be nice way to fade out
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The locums staffing companies have been relentless this week - at least 1-2 phone calls, texts and emails every day this week. Wonder if locums are more in demand now...
 
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w00tz said:
The locums staffing companies have been relentless this week - at least 1-2 phone calls, texts and emails every day this week. Wonder if locums are more in demand now...
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Yep. Goes with the job market being (relatively) better this year as well compared to the disaster during peak covid
 
59.5 would be the soonest I retire (or whatever age one can start taking distributions from a tax-deferred retirement)
 
I saw a 50 year old try to log in to Mosaiq a few weeks ago, was a sad sad sight.

Poor gal
 
Lamount said:
59.5 would be the soonest I retire (or whatever age one can start taking distributions from a tax-deferred retirement)
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You can withdraw roth contributions (though not gains) penalty free at any time and if you are 55 the year you quit working, you can withdraw from a 457b penalty free.
 
In the US the mandatory retirement age is 65 for commercial airline pilots. I don't think this would be unreasonable hard line retirement age for clinical medicine as well. That being said, in no way do I hope to be still practicing at that age myself.
 
there's at least one old old old old person still holding on to the mouse at TOPA that needs to be put out to pasture.
 
fiji128 said:
In the US the mandatory retirement age is 65 for commercial airline pilots. I don't think this would be unreasonable hard line retirement age for clinical medicine as well. That being said, in no way do I hope to be still practicing at that age myself.
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Shouldn’t this apply to administers as well? Wasn’t Wally Curran basically forced to retire from Emory due to age and now he’s basically an admin at Genesis? That to me is just as bad if not worse for the field.
 
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