Publication Exclusive: Ten ways to avoid ophthalmic career senescence

As baby boomer statistics would have it, more than half of today’s ophthalmologists are now in the second half of their career. And like the second half of life, the back-half of one’s professional lifespan — let’s say from age 50 to 70 — is troubled with the progressive whiff of senescence.

There is the year when your case volumes or income or both fall for the first time.

Perhaps one of your partners pulls ahead at the same time.
You are more tired than you remember being at the end of the day and week.
You find yourself drifting off during board meetings or blowing them off altogether, no longer all that interested in the company’s affairs.
There can be a scary misadventure or two in the OR.
You wonder: “Is this the dark foretaste of worse to come? If I feel this way at 54, what will things be like at 64?”

Here are 10 ways to reset your professional clock.

Click here to read the full publication exclusive, By the Numbers, published in Ocular Surgery News U.S. Edition, December 10, 2015.