Doctors aged over 70 are 81 per cent more likely to have a complaint filed against them by patients, according to Ahpra.
General Practitioners aged over 70 may soon need to get regular health checks to keep working, after the Australian Medical Board Ahpra revealed a spike in complaints about older doctors.
The overall rate of complaints against "late career doctors" has doubled over the past eight years in a "disturbing" increase, the medical board also said. Complaints about doctors aged 80 and over have increased by 180 per cent for every 1000 doctors between 2015 and 2023.
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