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title: How To Successfully Manage the Obstacles of  a Disruptive Physician
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# **How to Successfully Manage the Obstacles of a Disruptive Physician**

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It’s not too surprising for a physician to occasionally grow short with a colleague or a patient. 

But what happens when a physician’s action crosses the line—from merely being idiosyncratic, blowing off steam or from giving necessary criticism—into disruption?

##### Key Points:

- The different forms disruption materializes in.
- How disruption interrupts standard work   
  procedures and the impact on productivity.
- Steps to properly responding to a   
  disruptive physician.

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