Managing Difficult and Disruptive Physicians

The Business of Healthcare: [3 volumes]

Volumn 1-3, Issue , 2007, Pages 75-92

  Harmon, Larry ^a   Lapenta, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

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References (9)

1. Leape, L. L., and J. A. Fromson. 2006. “Problem Doctors: Is There a Systemlevel Solution?” Annals of Internal Medicine 144: 107–15.
2. Weber, D. O. 2004. “For Safety’s Sake, Disruptive Behavior Must Be Tamed.” Physician Executive 30 (5): 16–17.
3. Rosenstein, A. H., H. Russell, and R. Lauve. 2002. “Disruptive Physician Behavior Contributes to Nursing Shortage: Study Links Bad Behavior by Doctors to Nurses Leaving the Profession—Doctors, Nurses, and Disruptive Behavior.” Physician Executive 6: 12–13.
4. Pfifferling, J. 1999. “The Disruptive Physician: A Quality of Professional Life Factor—Physician Anger.” Physician Executive 25 (2): 56–61.
5. Harmon, L., and R. Pomm. 2004. “Evaluation, Treatment, and Monitoring of Disruptive Physician Behavior.” Psychiatric Annals 34 (10): 770–74.
6. Piper, L. E. 2003. “Addressing the Phenomenon of Disruptive Physician Behavior.” The Health Care Manager 22 (4): 335–39.
7. Thompson, R. E. 2004. “Misbehaving Physicians and Professional Ethics.” Physician Executive 30 (5): 32–36.
8. In the 2007 Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Medical Staff Standards, special emphasis is placed on interpersonal and communication skills and the professional. See JCAHO MS.4.10. It is also important to keep in mind that physician leadership training programs, which all hospitals should provide, should include modules on disruptive behavior since these problems seem to be on the rise.
9. Linney, B. J. 1997. “Confronting the Disruptive Physician.” Physician Executive 23 (7): 55–58.