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 | 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 | 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...
by Michael Heitt | May 21, 2013 | Disruptive Professionals, disruptive students, human behavior, workplace violence
It has long been understood that bullies typically have been bullied themselves. A few months ago I came across an interesting write up about the correlation between bullying behavior (and victimization from such behavior) and psychiatric illness. In a study...
by Michael Heitt | Sep 5, 2012 | Investigation, workplace violence, zero tolerance
I was recently sent an article entitled, “Countering Workplace Violence” that I found to be very well-written and extremely well-grounded. The piece was written in response to the recent shooting in Manhattan, but what I liked most about it was that,...