Not ready to quit
Aging physicians put off retirement • • •
At 63, Charleta Guillory, MD, director of Level II nurseries at the Texas Children’s Hospital Newborn Center in Houston, is thinking about retirement, but she’s not planning on leaving medicine anytime soon. The first African-American woman to attend Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Dr. Guillory, a 1974 graduate, has dedicated her life to serving others and can’t imagine walking away now. “I’m not thinking at all that I’m going to stop. I plan to practice until I can’t physi-
cally or mentally practice anymore. With every fiber of my being, I feel I can give back and help someone every day,” said Dr. Guillory, a member of the Texas Medi- cal Association Committee on Maternal and Perinatal Health. The neonatal-perinatal medicine specialist still works 80 hours per week.
BY CRYSTAL CONDE • PHOTOS BY BRETT BUCHANAN June 2012 TEXAS MEDICINE 15
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