I’m not old, just crazy

• “Agronin, described perhaps confusingly as ‘a geriatric psychiatrist’ (he’s in his mid-fifties)…”

Thank you, New Yorker, for pointing this out.

Yeah, a geriatric psychiatrist would be an elderly medical professional.

I think those folks you’re quoting needed to come up with a different description:

• a geriatric-specializing psychiatrist?
• a psychiatrist of geriatrics?
• a senior-serving shrink?

English is a complicated language. And the older you get, the complicateder.