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When unaddressed conflicts between emergency medicine colleagues affect patient care

The attending physician and I have completely different approaches to managing critical patients and we've never directly addressed it, so now the nurses don't know whose lead to follow and I can see them getting caught in the middle of our unspoken conflict. We're both too proud to bring it up but it's affecting patient care.

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You and another doctor won't talk out your differences, and the nurses are stuck in the middle.

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