Hospitals Crack Down On Tirades By Angry Doctors by Sandra G. Boodman. Kaiser Health News. March 5, 2013.
Estimates are that 3 to 5 percent of physicians engage in disruptive and angry behavior. Once tolerated, this behavior is now subject to regulations by the Joint Commission, the accreditation group for hospitals. A cottage industry of anger management counseling has sprung up. Nurses are often the objects of doctor tirades though patients are sometimes the victim. The transition to teamwork has frustrated older doctors acculturated in a hierarchical model of medicine.
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