%0 Journal Article
%T Knowing our ¡°best before date¡±: Developing an exit plan
%J Archive of "Canadian Urological Association Journal".
%D 2017
%R 10.5489/cuaj.4701
%X As I contemplate stepping down from the presidency of our association, I feel like I am now looking at my end game, wondering who or what I will become. At about the same time as I will be finishing up my stint as Past President of the Canadian Urological Association (handing over the reins in Halifax, June 2018), I will be crossing the line into the grey zone of my urological career. I will be joining the 18% (2015 Royal College statistics) of my fellow licensed urologists who are 65 years or older. For the past decade, I have observed with great interest as my older colleagues have held on (sometimes desperately and occasionally by their finger-tips) to their active practice, as if their life depended on it (and I suppose for many, they really believed that to be true). I told myself I was not going to be one of those older surgeons, daily trying to convince myself, my colleagues, my hospital, and my patients that my experience more than made up for the inevitable age-related cognitive and surgical skill deteriorations. But I, personally, am ready for my future. I have something most of my older colleagues did not. I have an exit plan
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472456/