{"id":28871,"date":"2017-02-07T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T11:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/?p=28871"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:49:44","slug":"meet-alla-illyinichna-levushkina-the-worlds-oldest-surgeon-who-is-89-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/meet-alla-illyinichna-levushkina-the-worlds-oldest-surgeon-who-is-89-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Alla Illyinichna Levushkina, the world\u2019s oldest surgeon who is 89 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alla Illyinichna Levushkina<\/strong>\u00a0is a 89 year-old\u00a0surgeon at Ryazan City Hospital near Moscow, and she still performs 4 operations every day.<\/p>\n<p>This incredible old woman has been a surgeon for a whopping 67 years, and although she\u2019s already performed more than 10,000 operations, she has no intention of slowing down.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28872\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89-year-old-surgeon-alla-ilyinichna-levushkina-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Alla Ilyinichna Levushkina\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89-year-old-surgeon-alla-ilyinichna-levushkina-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89-year-old-surgeon-alla-ilyinichna-levushkina-2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89-year-old-surgeon-alla-ilyinichna-levushkina-2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Alexander Ryumin\/TASS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>\u201cBeing a doctor isn\u2019t just a profession but a lifestyle,\u201d Alla\u00a0said<\/h2>\n<p><em>\u201cBeing a doctor isn\u2019t just a profession but a lifestyle,<\/em>\u201d she told to Lite FM when somebody asked her if she had any plans to retire. <em>\u201cIf I stopped working, who is going to perform the surgeries?\u00a0(&#8230;)\u00a0<\/em><em>I didn\u2019t find any secret to longevity, <\/em><em>I just eat everything, laugh a lot and cry a lot.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28873\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28873\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89-year-old-surgeon-alla-ilyinichna-levushkina-1-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alla Ilyinichna Levushkina\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89-year-old-surgeon-alla-ilyinichna-levushkina-1-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89-year-old-surgeon-alla-ilyinichna-levushkina-1-600x786.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89-year-old-surgeon-alla-ilyinichna-levushkina-1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Alexander Ryumin\/TASS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;I work and everything. I have nothing to do in retirement. Doctor \u2013 it is not just a profession, it\u2019s a way of life. Why else would the surgeon live, if not to work?&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; she told to Metro.<\/p>\n<h2>This surgeon is still performing hundreds of operations a year despite reaching the age of 89<\/h2>\n<p>Alla is unmarried and lives in a flat caring for her disabled nephew and her eight cats. She&#8217;s been performing surgeries since 1950 &#8211; which 67 years of experience &#8211; and she&#8217;s had zero fatalities. And having performed over 10,000 procedures hasn&#8217;t slowed down this badass one tiny bit.<\/p>\n<p>Average Russians retire in their mid-fifties \u2013 but not Alla who became the oldest surgeon still working in the world. She added: <em>&#8220;I work because it\u2019s interesting to me, and also because I like to win. I like to help people achieve remissions (&#8230;) There are people I saved many years ago when nobody else wanted to perform an operation on them. And I did that and they are still alive and have grown up children.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alla Illyinichna Levushkina is a 89 year-old surgeon at Ryazan City Hospital near Moscow, and she still performs 4 operations every 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