More and more doctors continued to work. For example, Georg Pfau, who, as a general practitioner, still manages his money practice in Linz at the age of 69. But at the age of 70 the law for contract doctors – is this age limit still current in times of lack of staff?
Does the stethoscope or scalpel fall on the statutory retirement on the statutory pension? Not all doctors do that for a long time. Of the 7014 active doctors who are registered with the Upper Austria Medical Association, 575 are already pension recipients. That means: almost every tenth “white jacket” (eight percent) continues to work with retirement. An increasing trend – in the summer of 2023, 495 doctors were active despite the pension – who at least illuminated the unbridled shortage of staff.
Source: Krone
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