Surgical units led by physicians?

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of people admitted to hospital are over 65 years old.¹ All clinicians including surgeons must expect to care for an increasingly older group of patients. Yet sufficient emphasis was not placed on the special needs of older patients in the medical curriculum for undergraduate and medical/surgical postgraduate training.² Can postgraduate medical/surgical education continue to ignore in its curriculum for training a significant proportion of the patient demographic represented by older patients? Can we continue on a path that seeks to create new subspecialties every time there is a need to improve patient care in a medical or