Does this mean that all older surgeons are too risky to rely on for a surgery? Not exactly so. In Waljee, Grenfield, Dimick and Birkmeyer’s article”, they analyze the relationship between surgeon age and patient outcomes. After comparing the data from different age groups of surgeons, they find that surgeons older than sixty years old with low procedure volumes do have a higher operative mortality rate for some complex procedures than their younger colleagues. However, for most procedures, the age of surgeons does not influence patient outcomes significantly. Moreover, in Katlic and Coleman’s article, they find that although the faculties of surgeons tend to deteriorate with age generally, the extents of deterioration are various from case
