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Managing the behavior of disruptive physicians is largely a job for the medical staff. However, disruptive physicians can have a direct effect on staff morale, an organization's productivity, and the bottom line, says Richard Sheff, MD, chair of The Greeley Company, and Todd Sagin, MD, JD, national medical director for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Marblehead, MA.