Retirement Committee

                                       Chair                                                                          Co-Chair

                                                                                    

                         Joseph McCabe, MD                                                      Morris Stambler, MD

 

Retirement Resources Page

A Journey of Retirement: A Personal Account - Margo P. Goldman, MD, DLFAPA

Committee Report: June 2025 

The Retirement Committee meets by Zoom four times a year to discuss topics such as retirement planning, closing practices, and early and later post-retirement concerns.

We welcome all MPS members.  We send out invitations to attend committee meetings to our senior members and any other member expressing interest, no matter their age.  

Since the last report in March, we had one meeting on May 15th on “Continuity of Care for Individual Providers.”  The guest speaker was Robyn Miller, PhD, who has formed a company that provides practice executor services.  The company assumes the tasks of notification and disposition of patients of therapists who have become temporarily incapacitated or who died unexpectedly.  The company takes custody of the medical records, storing them for the mandated period, and responds to requests for records.

In her talk, Robyn emphasized that informal arrangements with colleagues can put a tremendous burden on them and that family members often end up shouldering much of the burden.  A practice executor has a binding legal contract, which assures that every detail of the practice will be cared for as you have specified.  We submitted an article for the next MPS Newsletter for a longer discussion of the subject.  

The retirement committee is planning to discuss the emotions retirement evokes in both the psychiatrist and the patient in the next meeting in the Fall.