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The Ultimate Career Decision—When Should I Retire?

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Hopefully, everyone will have the opportunity to retire at the time and in the fashion that they wish. In addition to the financial aspects, the likelihood of a successful and fulfilling retirement is improved by visualizing what a great retirement looks like. This chapter describes factors in deciding when to retire, the positive and negatives of retirement, and an approach to planning a great retirement.

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  1. University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, USA

    Timothy J. Schaefer & Robert W. Wolford

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  1. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Robert P. Olympia

  2. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Elizabeth Barrall Werley

  3. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Lubin

  4. MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

    Kahyun Yoon-Flannery

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Schaefer, T.J., Wolford, R.W. (2023). The Ultimate Career Decision—When Should I Retire?. In: Olympia, R.P., Werley, E.B., Lubin, J.S., Yoon-Flannery, K. (eds) An Emergency Physician’s Path. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47873-4_102

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