Denouement: How life evolves after you retire from medicine

By The DO Staff

05.02.25

If you’re familiar with “A Pirate Looks at Forty” (sail on, Jimmy Buffett), then consider what follows to be “A Surgeon Looks at Seventy.” Because right about the time you read this, that number will be off my starboard side on an Aid to Navigation—a red day beacon or maybe a nun buoy. The numbers, I note, are rising, which tells me I’m heading to home port and an eventual end to the long journey.

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