Medicine. Law, Architecture: You’ve dedicated your lives to your professions. Yet many remain unprepared or in denial when it’s time to step down. “How to Not Flunk Retirement” is one blueprint for success that creates the strategies in transitioning from your profession to a new life. This lecture will focus on three areas.
- Take a hard look at yourself. What are the psychological and practical aspects in determining the right time to step down?
- The constant cash flow from being employed is going to vanish. What are the financial requirements for preparing for retirement?
- Who do you want to become? Transitioning to life after a busy career.
Doctor Scranton is a Board Certified orthopedic surgeon who trained at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was an Assistant Professor for three years. He joined Orthopedics International in Seattle in 1979 and became the team physician for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, 1980 – 1997. He was President of the NFL’s Physician’s Society in 1997, President of the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society in 2001 and served as President of the North American Orthopedic Educational Society from 2006 – 2012. He enjoyed orthopedic practice for 36 years, founding a mission in Vietnam to treat landmine victims and disabled children the last 13 years of practice. He retired to Ketchum, Idaho in 2016. He is the author of “Playing Hurt: Treating the Warriors of the NFL,” (Potomac Press, 2001) and is currently working on a novel.
