Comments on: The "silver tsunami" http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/silver-tsunami.html medical blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:35:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/05/silver-tsunami.html/comment-page-1#comment-85649 Anonymous Sat, 17 May 2008 15:13:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/05/the-silver-tsunami.html#comment-85649 Just ask Dr. Murphy if he'd like to practice his specialty of geriatrics as a private physician in the city of Providence, outside any Brown medical practice plan and all the other cash flows available to the higher-ups in the academic food chain.<br/><br/>For years you read articles about docs who took a geriatrics fellow out of the academic interest in the subject. Then they go into practice, and in a few years, they remove any reference to geriatric training in their advertising and credentials.<br/><br/>Those are the sorts of questions he needed to be asked. Just ask Dr. Murphy if he’d like to practice his specialty of geriatrics as a private physician in the city of Providence, outside any Brown medical practice plan and all the other cash flows available to the higher-ups in the academic food chain.

For years you read articles about docs who took a geriatrics fellow out of the academic interest in the subject. Then they go into practice, and in a few years, they remove any reference to geriatric training in their advertising and credentials.

Those are the sorts of questions he needed to be asked.

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