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Older radiologists remain productive
The 28,463 radiologists fell into the following post residency practice duration groups (with a sharp drop-off after 30 years):
32.7% 10 years
29.3% 11 to 20 years
25% 21 to 30 years
10.5% 31 to 40 years
2.4% 41 to 50 years
0.1% 51 yearsMade it past first and second tiers.
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My goal is to make it to 50 plus years
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That would be 35 more years for me, so roughly age 81 lol
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Im shooting for 90+ years.
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So we can confirm that there are roughly 29k radiologists in the USA?
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So we can confirm that there are roughly 29k radiologists in the USA?
study included information from 28,463 radiologists from the 2016 Medicare Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File
Peds rads or rads who don’t bill medicare directly- ie imaging center docs- won’t be listed.-
Ive got a ways go. Im at the second tier. 10.5% at 31 to 40 years is a lot.
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Two words.
Survivorship bias.
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In another 10 years we should be able to “reverse” aging. I will be reading rule out TB x-rays until AI takes them away from my cold, dead hands holding the dictaphone at age 200.
[link=https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/health/reversing-aging-scn-wellness/index.html]https://www.cnn.com/2023/…cn-wellness/index.html[/link]-
I actually agree with you – we are on the cusp of. some massive and unbelievable advances in science, especially bioscience.
AI is actually helping the cause. We can now predict protein folding with AI, it is truly remarkable.
It is reasonable to believe anyone who makes it to 2030 can expect to live to 100-120 years old.
I will probably also continue Radiology as long as possible.
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I dunnothe life expectancy in the US just dropped for the second year in a row
[link=https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm]https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/…ases/2022/20220831.htm[/link]
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I thought this drop was due to COVID.
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I thought this drop was due to COVID.
US life expectancy was dropping even before Covid …. Covid exacerbated it.
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I thought this drop was due to COVID.
US life expectancy was dropping even before Covid …. Covid exacerbated it.
Don’t forget to thank the Sackler family for the opioid disaster. Knocking off people in their teens, 20s, 30s wreaks havoc on the overall life expectancy averages.
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I thought this drop was due to COVID.
US life expectancy was dropping even before Covid …. Covid exacerbated it.
Don’t forget to thank the Sackler family for the opioid disaster. Knocking off people in their teens, 20s, 30s wreaks havoc on the overall life expectancy averages.
Yep.
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It is reasonable to believe anyone who makes it to 2030 can expect to live to 100-120 years old.
I don’t know …
I find it equally reasonable to believe that lots of us are going to unnecessarily die being misdiagnosed in an ED or on a hospital floor that is devoid of trained physicians where inexperienced midlevels are practicing independently and/or having a drug maladministered by an LPN being supervised by one nurse who has responsibility for 36 patients. -
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It is reasonable to believe anyone who makes it to 2030 can expect to live to 100-120 years old.
I don’t know …
I find it equally reasonable to believe that lots of us are going to unnecessarily die being misdiagnosed in an ED or on a hospital floor that is devoid of trained physicians where inexperienced midlevels are practicing independently and/or having a drug maladministered by an LPN being supervised by one nurse who has responsibility for 36 patients.
Morbidity compression. People aren’t making it to 100 using lots of healthcare, just the opposite.
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Obesity is probably a large part of the decreased average lifespan. How many morbidly obese 90 year olds do you see? Not many. But even that is political nowadays and you are supposedly fat shaming people if you talk to them about their weight. We are doomed as a civilization under the woke mafia. Between performing gender changing surgeries on minors and telling obese patients to embrace their obesity with pride we are doomed.
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Obesity is probably a large part of the decreased average lifespan. How many morbidly obese 90 year olds do you see? Not many. But even that is political nowadays and you are supposedly fat shaming people if you talk to them about their weight. We are doomed as a civilization under the woke mafia. Between performing gender changing surgeries on minors and telling obese patients to embrace their obesity with pride we are doomed.
Even less obese 100 year olds, if any.
Getting the middle aged or elderly to change anything is a herculean or more likely sisyphean task- thankful I don’t do primary care. -
First decade with no lifespan increase in US 2010-2020.
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I actually agree with you – we are on the cusp of. some massive and unbelievable advances in science, especially bioscience.
AI is actually helping the cause. We can now predict protein folding with AI, it is truly remarkable.
It is reasonable to believe anyone who makes it to 2030 can expect to live to 100-120 years old.
I truly hope thats the case assuming we are maintaining health span…I’ve read some on the topic (David Sinclair, Peter Attia), seems like we have a ways to go (particularly given the obesity epidemic /inflammatory lifestyles rampant in our society). Rogaine came out in the early 90’s? and we still don’t have a cure for male pattern baldness….Regardless, ground-breaking technology will likely only be available to those who can pay for it. -
We’re already in the culling. And yes, it is planned.
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