by Michael Heitt | Aug 5, 2025 | Disruptive Professionals, exercise, human behavior
What Actually Helps with Anger? A New Review Has Some Surprising AnswersRead the full article on ScienceDirect A recent meta-analysis published in Clinical Psychology Review takes a close look at what works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to managing anger. The study,...
by Michael Heitt | Jan 27, 2019 | Disruptive Professionals, Patient safety
A team of social psychologists studied the effect that bedside manner has on patient outcomes. Not surprisingly, patients not only prefer to have a nice doctor who spends a couple extra minutes with them, talks to them as people rather than CPT or RVU numbers, etc.,...
by Michael Heitt | Jan 1, 2019 | Disruptive Professionals, Patient safety
I recently came across this interesting article about physician burnout. It was a nice review of the relevant literature. The authors addressed the obvious issues such as job dissatisfaction, turnover and related financial and career-related issues. They also did a...
by Michael Heitt | Mar 7, 2018 | Coaching, Disruptive Professionals, disruptive students, human behavior, Human Resources, Patient safety, policies and procedures, workplace violence, zero tolerance
A colleague from the University of Maryland/VAMC, Preeti John, MD, and I just published an article in the Journal of Hospital Medicine about disruptive physician behavior. Check it out: Disruptive Physician Behavior: The Importance of Recognition and Intervention and...
by Michael Heitt | Oct 31, 2016 | Disruptive Professionals, human behavior, sex
I was recently interviewed for a Medscape article about maintaining professional boundaries, entitled, When Patients Try to Seduce Doctors. It’s a relatively short piece and, though I was misquoted a little, it has some good information about the doctor-patient...
by Michael Heitt | Oct 8, 2015 | Disruptive Professionals, human behavior
The Washington Post ran an article about a Tel Aviv University study of the effects of physicians’ disruptive behavior on patient safety. As discussed in previous posts, there is a clear link between disruptive behavior among physicians (and other...
