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Articles

• A Complementary Approach to Promoting Professionalism: Identifying, Measuring, and Addressing Unprofessional Behaviors
  Hickson, G. Pichert, J., Webb, L and Gabbe, S.


• A Hospital Protocol to Resolve Complaints Against Staff Physicians
  Leek, J. and Rubenfeld, S.


• A New Model of Bullying in the Nursing Workplace: Organizational Characteristics as Critical Antecedents
  Hutchinson, M., Jackson, D., Wilkes, L. and Vickers, M.


• A Plan for Identification, Treatment and Remediation of Disruptive Behaviors in Physicians
  Swiggart, W., Dewey, C., Hickson, G., Finlayson, R. and Spickard, W.


• A Second View of Being Disciplined
  Anonymous


• Abuse of the “Disruptive Physician” Clause
  Huntoon, L.


• Beyond Substance Abuse: Stress, Burnout, and Depression as Causes of Physician Impairment and Disruptive Behavior
  Brown, S., Goske, M. and Johnson, C.


• Bullying, Incivility, and Disruptive Behaviors in the Healthcare Setting: Identification, Impact, and Intervention
  Felbinger, D.


• Coaching For Insight. A Tool for Dealing with Disruptive Physician Behavior
  Laritz, S.


• Communication: A Risk Management Tool
  O’Connell, D. and Keller, V.


• Disciplinary Action by Medical Boards and Prior Behavior in Medical School
  Papadakis, M., Teherani, A., Banach, M., Knettler, T., Rattner, S., Stern, D., Veloski, J. and Hodgson, C.


• Disruptive Behavior and the Law
  Lapenta, S.


• Disruptive Clinician Behavior
  Simpson, K.


• Disruptive Physician Behavior Contributes to Nursing Shortage: Study Links Bad Behavior by Doctors to Nurses Leaving the Profession.
  Rosenstein, A., Russell, H. and Lauve, R.


• Executive Coaching: An Rx for MDs
  Sauerberg, S. and Prunty, K.


• Faculty Development as an Instrument of Change: A Case Study on Teaching Professionalism
  Steinert, Y., Cruess, R., Cruess, S., Boudreau, J. and Fuks, A.


• Faculty Field Guide for Promoting Student Civility in the Classroom
  Clark, C.


• Five Year Outcomes in a Cohort Study of Physicians Treated for Substance Use Disorders in the United States
  McLellan, A., Skipper, G., Campbell, M. and DuPont, R.


• For Safety’s Sake Disruptive Behavior Must be Tamed
  Weber, O.


• Hospital RNs' Experiences With Disruptive Behavior: A Qualitative Study
  Walrath, J., Dang, D. and Nyberg, D.


• Is the New Joint Commission Mandate that Healthcare Institutions Address Disruptive Behaviors an Appropriate Standard? Writing for the Pro Position
  Latayan, M.


• Is the New Joint Commission Mandate that Healthcare Institutions Address Disruptive Behaviors an Appropriate Standard? Writing for the Con Position
  Schoppmann, M.


• Is There a Slippery Slope? Considerations Regarding Multiple Relationships and Risk Management
  Gottlieb, M. and Younggren, J.


• Is Your Hospital Safe? Disruptive Behavior and Workplace Bullying
  Martin, W.


• Language is Key to Managing Disruptive Behavior by Physicians
  Borden, J.


• Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
  Kotter, J.


• Learning Professionalism: A View from the Trenches
  Brainard, A., and Brislen, H.


• Linking Professionalism to Humanism: What it Means, Why it Matters
  Cohen, J.


• Managing Unmanageable Physicians: Leadership, Stewardship and Disruptive Behavior
  Keogh, T. and Martin, W.


• Managing Your Boss
  Gabarro, J. and Kotter, J.


• Misbehaving Physicians and Professional Ethics
  Thompson, R.


• Misuses and Misunderstandings of Boundary Theory in Clinical and Regulatory Settings
  Gutheil, T. and Gabbard, G.


• Model Medical Staff Code of Conduct
  American Medical Association


• Outcome Study of Substance Impaired Physicians and Physician Assistants Under Contract with North Carolina Physicians Health Program for the Period 1995-2000
  Ganley, O., Pendergast, W., Wilkerson, M. and Mattingly, D.


• Paranoia and Progress Notes: A Guide to Forensically Informed Psychiatric Recordkeeping
  Gutheil, T.


• Patient Complaints and Malpractice Risk
  Hickson, G., Federspiel, C., Pichert, J. Miller, C. Gauld-Jaeger, J and Bost, P.


• Physicians’ “Disruptive” Behavior: Consequences for Medical Quality and Safety
  Pfifferling, J.


• Physicians With Disruptive Behavior
  Rakatansky, H.


• Poll Results: Doctors’ Disruptive Behavior Disturbs Physician Leaders: Survey Reveals Ongoing Problems with Physicians Yelling at Nurses, Refusing to Carry Out Tasks and Showing a Severe Lack of Respect for Others
  Weber, O.


• Problem Doctors: Is There a System-Level Solution?
  Leape, L. and Fromson, J.


• Problematic Physicians: A Comparison of Personality Profiles by Offence Type
  Roback, H., Strassberg, D., Iannelli, R., Finlayson, A., Blanco, M. and Neufeld, R.


• Professionalism and Humanism: Beyond the Academic Health Center
  Swick, H


• Professionalism in Medicine
  Whitcomb, M.


• Risk Factors for Relapse in Health Care Professionals With Substance Use Disorders
  Domino, K., Hornbein, T., Polissar, N., Renner, G., Johnson, J., Alberti, S. and Hankes, L.


• Sentinel Event Alert: Behaviors that Undermine a Culture of Safety
  JCAHO


• Suicide Rates Among Physicians: A Quantitative and Gender Assessment (Meta-Analysis)
  Schernhammer, E. and Colditz, G.


• Taking Their Own Lives — The High Rate of Physician Suicide
  Schernhammer, E.


• Teaching Respect at Maimonides Medical Center
  Brier, P.


• That was Then, This is Now: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for the Rest of Us.
  Shedler, J.


• The Concept of Boundaries in Clinical Practice: Theoretical and Risk-Management Decisions
  Gutheil, T. and Gabbard, G.


• The Destructiveness of Laissez-Faire Leadership Behavior
  Skogstad, A., Einarsen, S., Torsheim, T., Aasland, M. and Hetland, H.


• The Disruptive Physician
  Pfifferling, J.


• The Disruptive Physician: A Conceptual Organization
  Williams, B. and Williams, M.


• The Disruptive Physician: Righteous Maverick or Dangerous Pariah?
  Zbar, R., Taylor, L. and Canady, J.


• The Disruptive Professional: Case Scenarios
  Metter, D., Harolds, J., Rumack, M., Relyea-Chew, A. and Arenson, R.


• The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
  Shedler, J.


• The Insulting Physician “Code of Conduct”
  Huntoon, L.


• The Journey to Creating a Campus-Wide Culture of Professionalism
  Smith, K., Saavedra, R., Raeke, J. and O’Donell, A.


• Understanding and Responding to Bullying and Related Behaviors in Healthcare Workplaces
  Yamada, D.


• Using Patient Complaints to Promote Patient Safety
  Pichert, J., Hickson, G. and Moore, I.


• What We Know About Leadership Effectiveness and Personality
  Hogan, R., Curphy, G. and Hogan, J.


• White Coat, Mood Indigo - Depression in Medical School
  Rosenthal, J. and Okie, S.


• Working with Impaired Residents: Trials, Tribulations, and Successes
  Winter, R. and Birnberg, B.

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• American Bar Association


• American Dental Association


• American Medical Association


• American Nurses Association


• American Physical Therapy Association


• American Psychological Association


• National Association of Social Workers

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