Poll Results: Doctors' Disruptive Behavior Disturbs Physician Leaders; Survey Reveals Ongoing Problems with Physicians Yelling at Nurses, Refusing to Carry out Tasks and Showing a Severe Lack of Respect for Others (Dealing with Disruptive Behavior‪)‬

They're out there ... browbeating nurses and pharmacists, dressing down hapless staff, belittling patients to their faces, swearing at the tops of their voices, muttering ominous threats, dripping sarcasm and snide innuendo, slouching in late day after day, raging, sulking, hurling surgical instruments, blowing off appointments, sabotaging meetings, sneering at administrators, insulting their colleagues, refusing to answer pages, addling their judgment with drink or drugs, breaching sexual boundaries, "climbing into bed with an overdose patient in the ICU" ... oh yes, you name it, no matter how outrageous, one of them is pretty sure to have done it ... because.... They're out there: The Problem Docs.