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106. Today my ophthalmologist said he is retiring because of Obama

Fact is, he is of the age when retirement would be normal anyway. He tends to be a bit old-fashioned in a practice where there is good technology available. But he told me after the election, he decided to quit. I probed a little. It boiled down to the Medicare reimbursement rates, which is really not an Obama thing at all. He said his rates were cut by 30%, which sounded a bit high to me. I told him I had heard that, as part of the "cliff deal", those cuts were largely canceled out and he would never actually see them. He said he hadn't heard anything about that, and then launched into a diatribe about government paperwork.

I am sure he is giving this same BS speech to every patient for the next 5 months before he actually hangs it up. Maybe I said something that will give him a reason to tone down his talk.

I think he was probably a pretty good doc, but I also think retirement is exactly the right answer for him.

There are several milestones we reach in life. One is when you get your driver's license. When you graduate college. When you get married, etc. Another major milestone is when you find you are older than your doctor. That ain't all bad. I'm looking forward to meeting the new doc.

P.S. My family doctor dies about 4 years ago. He practiced until the day he died at age 91. Nice old guy, but I was fortunate to not have had any complex medical issues in those years. I now am with a GP that is much more up to date.