When physician's act up/out

zenman · Nov 22, 2004

So what do you all think is the best way to deal with a doc who starts up with a negative attitude and starts yelling of he doesn't get what he want's? DO you walk away. Do you say "I will not put up with you bad mouthing the nurses..." or what? We had a surgeon come in and start demanding things of us(which we had nothing tho do with and were unaware of) and started telling us how difficult we were and we were just being this way on purpose(yada yada)... No matter what we said we couldn't placate him so we just let him rant and called our manager(while he continued to rant at the air since we all walked away from him). Now this guy has been an A-sole but we never met him before so we had no clue. I am sick of these guys pulling this garbage so I walked away. There was no patient present yet by the way. He acted like we were obstructing justice or something.
After our manager(a male) talked to him I heard he was sweet as pie to my co-worker(I always miss this stuff)

Call a Code Orange or whatever you want to call it where as many nurses as possible from all over the hospital rush over, surround the guy and just stare at him. I've heard that this really changes their behavior.

VizslaMom · Nov 22, 2004

Call a Code Orange or whatever you want to call it where as many nurses as possible from all over the hospital rush over, surround the guy and just stare at him. I've heard that this really changes their behavior.

:rotfl: That's Great!!

jaimealmostRN · Nov 22, 2004

Call a Code Orange or whatever you want to call it where as many nurses as possible from all over the hospital rush over, surround the guy and just stare at him. I've heard that this really changes their behavior.

The floor that I am a student on just did this last week. There is no "official" code orange or any thing, but as many nurses/managers/residents/techs as possible go stand next to the person being attacked. In this case, an older dr. began yelling at one of the RNs about something that was not her job. This person had a long history of yelling and basicaly embarrassing himself. :rotfl: Myself and two other RNs stood next to her and just looked at him. He stormed off the unit and the resident came over and apologized....apparently he is like this to everyone. :uhoh21: I am very happy that people just don't try to ignore things like this and pretend that they didn't just happen. I, however, would laugh in the person's face and threaten to call security if it kept up....but thats just me!!! :chuckle

michelleicu · Nov 22, 2004

The floor that I am a student on just did this last week. There is no "official" code orange or any thing, but as many nurses/managers/residents/techs as possible go stand next to the person being attacked. In this case, an older dr. began yelling at one of the RNs about something that was not her job. This person had a long history of yelling and basicaly embarrassing himself. :rotfl: Myself and two other RNs stood next to her and just looked at him. He stormed off the unit and the resident came over and apologized....apparently he is like this to everyone. :uhoh21: I am very happy that people just don't try to ignore things like this and pretend that they didn't just happen. I, however, would laugh in the person's face and threaten to call security if it kept up....but thats just me!!! :chuckle

that's cool that you all helped her out.

zenman · Nov 22, 2004

Another consideration would be to surround the guy, turn around and "moon" him! :chuckle

UM Review RN, ASN, RN · Nov 22, 2004

Another consideration would be to surround the guy, turn around and "moon" him!

Oh yeah. That's a real professional response. :chuckle

Trauma Columnist · Nov 22, 2004

I'm one of those "old" nurses who won't tolerate being yelled at, no matter what. No one should tolerate that nonsense. Personally, I've never been involved in a "code orange" before. I can (fortunately) take care of myself. However, I do step in if I see a nurse being bullied because its something I just can't tolerate.

zenman · Nov 22, 2004

Oh yeah. That's a real professional response. :chuckle

Maybe that's the point!

Altra, BSN, RN · Nov 22, 2004

There's an MD at the hospital where I work as a tech who's known to have a temper tantrum once or twice a month. Everyone walks away and ignores him.

laurasc · Nov 22, 2004

Call a Code Orange or whatever you want to call it where as many nurses as possible from all over the hospital rush over, surround the guy and just stare at him. I've heard that this really changes their behavior.

I'll have to pass that one on at work for when one of our docs blows his/her stack.

DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN · Nov 22, 2004

There's an MD at the hospital where I work as a tech who's known to have a temper tantrum once or twice a month. Everyone walks away and ignores him.

I have had a Cardiologist who thinks he's Gods gift to women and to the medical professional really start yelling at me and I got up and just walked away and into the female nurses locker room. (then I cried) He tried to get me fired and tried to have me barred from taking care of anymore of his patients. I hear he threw a fit in Admin as well. Strange thing is this Doc has never been know to throw a fit. Admin backed me up 100%, told him that I was right, he was wrong and that if he thought I wouldn't be allowed to take care of his patients he was wrong. I've seen him occasionally since then and he pretty much sees me and turns the other way which is fine with me. He should feel guilty not me. I had a Tele patient with a heart rate of 260 and a BP of 62/38 that I had in trendilenburg. I asked him to send the patient to the unit after the two doses of IV Lopressor he had me push didn't help, the rate was only going higher and the BP lower. The patients family naturally was very upset, saying "she's going to die" please do something. When he said no to the unit I said if you don't send her "I'm calling administration" that's when he let me have it. The patient did end up in the unit and was there for a week. The family reported the doc as well. His reply was "well if that nurse was so concerned I suggest next time she just call a code instread of bothering me". What an *** !