The Joint Commission, the accreditation body that certifies hospitals, has had enough of doctors’ bad behavior and the hospitals who tolerate them.
They have required hospitals they accredit to adopt a zero-tolerance policy toward bad behavior from staff, which must include a code of conduct and …
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This is an excellent entry. My firm, Anderson & Anderson provides Executive Coaching/Anger management for “disruptive physicians’ nationwide. We have experienced a dramatic increase since JACHO announced its new guidelines. Unfortunately, few mental health clinicians seem interested in this new emerging area of specialiation.
George,
I think medical as well as mental doctors need to be interested in this area of specialization. Doctors, especially in the medical field have to follow a code of conduct, specifically known as the Hippocratic Oath. Psychologists, as you probably already know have a code of ethics that we must follow. Psychologists are sometimes badly scorned for things they’ve done inappropriately, and so too must medical doctors, and perhaps even the more.
Once a person becomes a doctor I strongly believe that they are called to behave in a way that respects and compliments the field. We all make mistakes, no one is perfect, but that does not excuse tactless behavior. This is incongruent with the foundation of the profession.
A friend of mine was having a panic attack and when I took her to the hospital, the doctor began yelling at her and told her “she should have came in earlier if she wanted any tests ran” so after I called him an a**hole, he told me that I needed to get her and leave. We filed a report and since then, we’ve seen him twice in the hospital and both times he was sweet as pie.
Some people just need a good solid punch in the mouth though, in my opinion. Power hungry idiots who complete schooling and believe they hold all of the answers, even though he couldn’t tell the most simple of things; when someone’s having a panic attack, you stay CALM with them.
True Mike.
“Power hungry” people do need a good shaking sometimes. By no means am I indorsing physical violence.
Metaphorically speaking…some people just need to know you are not playing around with their ego.