STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
Learn how not to flunk retirement from the former team physician for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks.
Dr. Pierce Scranton will offer a blueprint for ways to transition from your profession to a new life during a free presentation at 6 tonight—Tuesday, Dec. 11—at The Community Library in Ketchum.
The blueprint involves three strategies:
- Take a hard look at yourself as you figure out the psychological and practical aspects of determining the right time to step down.
- Figure out the financial requirements necessary for retirement, knowing that the constant cash flow from being employed is going to vanish.
- Determine who you want to become after you give up a busy career for life after career.
Scranton, who retired to Ketchum in 2016, is an orthopedic surgeon who trained at the University of Pittsburgh where he was an assistant professor. He joined Orthopedics International in Seattle in 1979, becoming team physician for the Seahawks from 1980 to 1997.
He has served a president of the NFL’s Physicians Society and on numerous other boards. And he founded a mission in Vietnam to treat landmine victims and disabled children.
He is the author of “Playing Hurt: Treating the Warriors of the NFL” and is currently working on a novel.