1. I'm not a geriatrician.

2. Robert Tan,geriatrician at University of Texas and author of The Andropause Mystery

3. And geriatricians try to hold back the sands of time by stopping the damage converting into pathology.

4. The geriatrician will intervene late in the day, when pathology is becoming evident, and the geriatrician will try and hold back the sands of time, and stop the accumulation of side effects from causing the pathology quite so soon.

5. He came to public attention in 2007 when he was featured in an article by geriatrician David Dosa in the New England Journal of Medicine.

6. Originally conceived of in 1991 by the late Mark Beers, MD, a geriatrician, the Beers Criteria catalogues medications that cause side effects in older adults due to the physiologic changes of aging