by Michael Heitt | Sep 19, 2013 | Disruptive Professionals, human behavior, risk assessment
I just found an interesting article that is still in-press about fitness for duty evaluations for physicians. A significant part of my practice is devoted to assessing and addressing issues related to physician (and other professional) impairment and disruptive...
by Michael Heitt | Sep 13, 2013 | medication, Psychotherapy
Yet another article was published recently that touted the positive effects of psychotherapy. In this study the authors noted that psychotherapy was as effective as antidepressant medication at treating and preventing relapses of depressive episodes. Of course the...
by Michael Heitt | Aug 20, 2013 | exercise, sleep
I just read a brief little piece at CBSNews about a study that demonstrated the benefits of camping as an intervention to improve sleep. The article offers several possible reasons why going camping may help insomniacs sleep better, but ultimately the main reason is...
by Michael Heitt | Aug 15, 2013 | exercise, insomnia
My patients hear me say it all the time: if you improve your sleep hygiene and exercise more your insomnia will get better. But I always warn folks that, like most things worth waiting for, the improvements don’t occur “overnight.” A recent study...
by Michael Heitt | Aug 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Bloomberg put out a brief, light article about why CEOs should consider using executive coaches. The main premise is based upon a (very good) comparison to how elite athletes use coaches. The piece adds that great althletic coaches often aren’t formerly...
by Michael Heitt | Jul 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Over the past few years I’ve partnered up with Laura Rubenstein, a local employment attorney, to give talks about disruptive employees. A few months ago she had me as a guest on her webinar, Legal Lunch with Laura. Check it out.
by Michael Heitt | Jun 26, 2013 | Disruptive Professionals, Human Resources, policies and procedures, workplace violence
Marty Martin, a former Hopkins guy (I think we only briefly overlapped our tenures there), wrote a nice little piece entitled, Taming Disruptive Behavior for the AGProfessional website. As you can see the concepts we talk about regarding disruptive behavior and...
by Michael Heitt | Jun 10, 2013 | benefits of therapy, Coaching
I just came across a recent article in the AMA’s newsletter, AMedNews.com, about physician (and staff) burnout. Nothing all that new here, but it talks about how overwork and burnout of one member of the treatment team or office staff – – physician...
by Michael Heitt | May 29, 2013 | benefits of therapy, psychodynamic, Psychotherapy
There have been many studies that have demonstrated the positive effects of psychotherapy. A new study was just published in PLoS Medicine that looked at seven different types of psychotherapeutic intervention. The study essentially showed that there was no...
by Michael Heitt | May 21, 2013 | Disruptive Professionals, human behavior, risk assessment, workplace violence
The ApA put out a brief about a study published in Comprehensive Psychiatry which noted correlations between aggressive behavior and being fired from jobs. The brief nicely noted that people who self-describe as frequently engaging in aggressive behaviors (disruptive...
