At the American Medical Association s annual meeting, officials said they are developing mandatory competency guidelines for aging physicians. With more than a quarter of doctors over the age of 65, ...

Several experts are calling for competency testing for physicians aged 65 years or older. Delegates at the American Medical Association (AMA) met this past June to discuss guidelines for testing older ...

Medical doctors are becoming victims of age discrimination in Las Vegas. So asserts Dr. Dale Carrison, the 77-year-old chief of staff at University Medical Center and the hospital’s head of emergency ...

The American Medical Association's House of Delegates voted in its June meeting that the time has come to address the issue of aging physicians more systematically, perhaps with formal guidelines and ...

Spectrum News: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, weighed in on a controversial idea in politics: requiring mandatory competency testing ...

Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley has an “age” problem, as reflected in the hallmark of her campaign for the GOP nomination: mental competency testing for all aspirants for all candidates ...

Utah legislators advanced a bill to the state Senate Feb. 26 that would prohibit hospitals and health systems in the state from testing a physician’s competency through a cognitive test after they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of Joe Biden with cogs turning in his head. It's little secret that former President Donald Trump is particularly ...

It's not uncommon for physicians to push back against age-based competency testing or even go so far as to call the practice discriminatory. Proponents of screening, however, argue that it's a ...

Robert Brewer will undergo mental competency testing before he faces more court proceedings on charges that he threw a bucket of feces on the Saginaw County Courthouse.