Advancing age: bane or boon?

摘要

The editorial was rather timely and I felt it was specifically addressed to me. I had recently been put to pasture after 34 years in the same hospital. When I joined this unit, it was a very basic setup and needed an injection of fresh blood, ideas and lots of hard work. This pioneering work to establish aworkingexcellentsurgicalfacility,withafocusoneducation and training, was launched. We started a teaching programme leading to a Diplomate National Boards (DNB) and had suc- cessive batches of budding cardiac surgeons opting for the programme with us, along with a robust surgical facility.