Physician retirement: a cultural shift from system to self
The number was specific: 18,000 steps.
It came from a retired hospital director in Taipei, a physician-administrator who spent four decades building services, negotiating budgets, and managing crises across a health care system that now treats an aging society as its primary patient.
Most physicians retire into silence. He retired into data.
But the more interesting revelation did not come from his smartwatch. It came from the dinner table.
A shift in governance
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Physician retirement: a cultural shift from system to self


















