Re: Predictors of 1-year mortality in patients discharged from the hospital following acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

321 we, today, call Geriatric Medicine but with wider knowledge and experience to deal with general patients of all ages. Many of my General Practitioner colleagues tell me that they are waiting for some of their patients to get older so I can see them. As the late R. E. Irvine (the founder of orthogeriatrics) used to put it, ‘What is good for older people is good for younger people but what is good for younger people is not always good for older people.’