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11-16-2007, 12:23 PM
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Age 60
Just left my request to veto the bill. Thank you for posting the phone #.
My reason: Apply the age vs. experience issue to medicine. Suppose you have just been informed that you need major open heart surgery. Your primary care physician recommends a doctor who is 45 years old. He is a graduate from a renouned medical university and has 15 years of experience since graduating from med school. Are you going to say, "No way - I want an older doctor" So I guess the best heart doctors are the ones who are 90 years old and graduated from med school in 1942? Would you put your life in the hands of a doctor 90 year old doctor? Well, he has the most experience, right?
There is a limit to the tradeoff between experience and age, and in aviaiton, that limit should be 60.
Rott.
My reason: Apply the age vs. experience issue to medicine. Suppose you have just been informed that you need major open heart surgery. Your primary care physician recommends a doctor who is 45 years old. He is a graduate from a renouned medical university and has 15 years of experience since graduating from med school. Are you going to say, "No way - I want an older doctor" So I guess the best heart doctors are the ones who are 90 years old and graduated from med school in 1942? Would you put your life in the hands of a doctor 90 year old doctor? Well, he has the most experience, right?
There is a limit to the tradeoff between experience and age, and in aviaiton, that limit should be 60.
Rott.
11-16-2007, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by RockyTopFlyer
I guess ALPA's misguided stance has absolutely nothing to do with money.
Originally Posted by MD11Fr8Dog
or APAAD's?
11-16-2007, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Rottweiler
Just left my request to veto the bill. Thank you for posting the phone #.
My reason: Apply the age vs. experience issue to medicine. Suppose you have just been informed that you need major open heart surgery. Your primary care physician recommends a doctor who is 45 years old. He is a graduate from a renouned medical university and has 15 years of experience since graduating from med school. Are you going to say, "No way - I want an older doctor" So I guess the best heart doctors are the ones who are 90 years old and graduated from med school in 1942? Would you put your life in the hands of a doctor 90 year old doctor? Well, he has the most experience, right?
There is a limit to the tradeoff between experience and age, and in aviaiton, that limit should be 60.
Rott.
My reason: Apply the age vs. experience issue to medicine. Suppose you have just been informed that you need major open heart surgery. Your primary care physician recommends a doctor who is 45 years old. He is a graduate from a renouned medical university and has 15 years of experience since graduating from med school. Are you going to say, "No way - I want an older doctor" So I guess the best heart doctors are the ones who are 90 years old and graduated from med school in 1942? Would you put your life in the hands of a doctor 90 year old doctor? Well, he has the most experience, right?
There is a limit to the tradeoff between experience and age, and in aviaiton, that limit should be 60.
Rott.
Dr. Kutz is in his early 70's and Dr. Kleinert....he graduated Temple Medical School back in 1946, so you can guess how old he is. Sure there is a tradeoff with age, and it's different for different people. I just don't think you are the expert to decide what that age is.
11-16-2007, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBaron
No doubt. It's about money, and not safety, no matter which side of the argument you're on. I just get a little tired of the juvenile name calling from some of the anti-65 crowd when there motivation is just as self-centered. I personally don't care that much one way or the other. I want to retire at 60 (or earlier) and just hope that any change to the rule will not penalize a "normal" retirement. But who knows, maybe when I'm in my 50's I may decide I'm not ready to retire. The hypocrites and whiners just wear on me after a while.
11-16-2007, 09:07 PM
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The hypocrites are the pro-65 guys who claim that this is a moral/civil rights issue when they have never stood up in defense of any other political/social cause there whole life. I have never heard a single pro-65 guy tell me about their last congressional letter writing campaign or march other than this particularly self serving issue.
11-16-2007, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Jaxman187
The hypocrites are the pro-65 guys who claim that this is a moral/civil rights issue when they have never stood up in defense of any other political/social cause there whole life. I have never heard a single pro-65 guy tell me about their last congressional letter writing campaign or march other than this particularly self serving issue.
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