استعرض مصدر Mainstream or Extinction: Can Defining Who We Are Save Geriatrics?

==ملخص==
T
he guiding principles and skills of small “g” geriatrics
increasingly inform healthcare delivery, person-
oriented research, medical education, and health policy. At
the same time, the ﬁeld of big “G” Geriatrics struggles to
recruit new fellows and to provide a single, consistent, uni-
ﬁed understanding of who we are and what we do. Our
extinction has been predicted from the beginning and
repeatedly over the years,
1,2
but previously, our options
appeared to be extinction as a species from lack of replica-
tion versus survival as a marginalized ﬁeld. Our current
situation includes an alternative scenario: our principles
will deﬁne mainstream health care while the ﬁeld disap-
pears. Before launching into what is wrong with our cur-
rent strategies and tactics and what we should do
differently to increase our chance of survival, let’s remem-
ber that we have had many successes