Dealing with difficult doctors

In the latest version of Dealing with Difficult People, author Roy Lilley claims that there is no such thing as a difficult person. There are just people we need to learn how to deal with.

He further proposes that there are seven classic difficult types.

1. Hostile, aggressive, belligerent, and offensive
2. Complainers, grouches, and the sourpusses
3. The silent, unresponsive, and quiet ones
4. The super agreeable
5. The negativist
6. The know-all
7. The indecisive, the ditherer, the hesitant

Here are the 10 worst things you can do at a meeting.

Do you recognize your doctor or colleague?

Here is a similar list of entrepreneurial psychopathies.

When you deal with physician entrepreneurs, then you don't need a PhD in clinical psychology to understand that dealing with them can be difficult too.

These might help:

1. Tips for working with difficult doctors
2. Disrputive or disruptive doctor
3. Dr. Asshole
4. How to deal with an arrogant doctor
5. How to deal with difficult doctors: A nurse's guide
6. Dr. AWOL
7. The dark underbelly of medicine
8. Myths about physician entrepreneurs
9. What doctors wish patients know about physician entrepreneurs
10. How to fight with your doctor
11. Doctors who don't keep their promises
12. Doctors who raise their hands, but don't show up, put up or shut up
13. Doctors who ghost you
14. Doctors who get angry when I don't take their advice
15. Doctors who don't get Sh$T done
16. Why doctors don't play nice with each other
17. Fire me. Please.
18. What to wear to quit your job or tell your boss to take this white coat and shove it
19. How to respond to brain pickers
20. The law of reciprocity is not a law
21. False humility
22. Sociopaths
23. Why your doctor is a cold fish
24. How to Cope With a Controlling Person

You should be sure to update your resume so it details how you have transferable people skills, since, if doctors annoy you enough, you will quit and look for another place to work.

For example, why be annoying to a few people, when you can expand your transferable skills to an entire enemy occupying your country

The number one rule in dealing with difficult people is: Don't take it personally.

Here's how to deal with me. Do you want to listen to this seashell I just found?

Thank you.

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is the President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs on Substack.