Should a surgeon retire at the age of 50? Dr. Lin Jingyun: I am 70 years old, and I am still challenging myself!

Health 10:05am, 9 August 2025 192

Recently read an article about a woman challenging age restrictions. The protagonist is Ms. Lin Joseph from the United States. She started running a marathon at the age of 15 with the goal of entering the Olympic team, but was eliminated many times. After running to the age of 30, the people around her thought she had no hope, so she accepted it, so she forgot about her potential.

New York Marathon has a history of forty years and the champions have always been men. In 2017, she was crowned by Ms. Flanagan, a thirty-six-year-old. When she was awarding, she encouraged the female runners around her, "I'll change you next time."

Sure enough, in 2019, Ms. Desert, at the Boston Marathon, broke the record since 1985 and became the first female champion. When I arrived at Ms. Dai Si's award this time, I did not forget to encourage the female runners around me and "work hard to take over." The national representative team of the US Olympic Marathon did not have gender or age restrictions, but only required the results to be less than two hours and forty-five points. Ms. Lin was inspired to re-train and train with like-minded marathon runners. She admitted that the process was very painful and she also needed to adjust her understanding of age, and to convince herself that she believed in her potential and bravely challenge herself.

At the age of 36, Ms. Lin Sheng ran out of her previous achievements and was selected as the representative of the American Olympic Marathon National Team.

Life is like a marathon, and you can fill your dreams at any age

I haven't run a marathon, but Ms. Lin Sheng's story deeply touched my heart.

We have a fixed standard impression of age. For example, when I was young, I saw that the doctor was shaking his hands and could not determine the target, and there were presbyops who could not disassemble the lines. So I decided that the elderly could not be good surgeons and planned to retire at the age of 50 early on, so I also chose Celine. Dion's song is a farewell song.

However, as I grow year by year, I have become more concerned about eye lenses, and there is no problem with seeing far and close; I am healthy, flexible in movements, and stable in my hands. In addition, surgery is my favorite, and I still work continuously to this day. Maybe I am seventy years old, and recently patients often call to ask: "Doctor Lin retired?" There are too many people asking, which makes me feel sad when I go to work.

However, after reading Ms. Lin Sheng's story, my impression was: Life is like a marathon, and you can revive your dreams at any age. If you can surpass yourself, it is worth staying on the track.

According to this article, some women start marathon training after giving birth to four children, and they can also meet the national team's standards.

Lightness is not a necessary condition for a marathon. Age is certainly not a deduction for fulfilling your dream. There are many ways to challenge yourself at any age.

After the coma after the middle wind, several geniuses were awake, leaving behind post-dementia. Steve found his forgotten language

After the chief executive of the French Mark Snow Dragon Group, Steve, several geniuses were awake, and left behind the post-dementia of dementia. If he went out of his home, he would lose his way and could not go home. What's worse is the absent words, the words are inconsistent, and even nonsense. He reluctantly regained his job and was eventually dismissed.

was once the leader of 230,000 people and the leader of the atmosphere. After his life suddenly became empty, Steve was not defeated. He desperately moved towards his dream step by step. During the reign of the Yuan Dynasty, he drove sailing and crossed the Pacific Ocean. He took fifty days to hike from Amsterdam, Holland to Nice, France. Steve regained his forgotten language and restored his past wisdom.

Three years later, he founded another business in the French industrial world and returned to the world of big bosses - "Zhifeng Enterprise", the world's top three aerospace groups, and served as vice chairman of the supervisory committee.

Do what you are good at, challenge yourself at any time

Do what you are good at, challenge yourself at any time, don’t have to be the “me” in the eyes of others, which will add a lot of motivation to my life.

I like playing golf. But it may be because of the congenital flat feet, the lower plate is unstable and there has never been a good result. The standard number of eighteen-hole golf balls is seventy-two, and my results are hovering between ninety-two to one hundred.

Recently I have discovered that there is an achievement called "Age Shooter", which means that you use your age as the marker to hit a rod of the same or lower rod as your age. My current dream is to live to the age of ninety and play ninety chords.

Yes, you didn't hear anything wrong, I'm seventy years old, I'm challenging myself!

Author introduction: Dr. Lin Jingyun

is Taiwan's first female surgeon. She is known as the "plastic surgery godmother" and is a recognized plastic surgery authority in Taiwan. From the aspects of self-growth and medical beauty profession, she shared that no matter how many years of age, she must pursue beauty, love, and health, and motivate mature readers to create a "naturally life", enjoy the ideal post-youth, and become the object of the elegance of the mature race. He continued to write a column in media such as "Yuanqi.com" and "Free Times", and published the long-time book "Happiness of Age".

is currently the director of the Joint Plastic Surgery Clinic, and the attending physician of the Plastic Surgery Department of National Taiwan University Hospital. He has also served as a director of the Plastic Surgery Association of the Republic of China and a director of the Cosmetic Surgery Association of the Republic of China. In the 71st year of the Republic of China, he won the "Top Ten Young Women". He has served as the chief physician of Plastic Surgery at Mackay Hospital, Plastic Surgery at the University of New York University, and Chairman of the Cosmetic Surgery Association of the Republic of China.

※This article is excerpted from Baoping Culture "The Challenge of Age: Creating an Ideal Old Man"

作者:林靜芸 
出版社:寶瓶文化 
出版日期:2022/02/11