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... hospital.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
2.
... hospital.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
3.
... hospital.
BB p.110,
To Wives
4.
... hospital.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
5.
... Hospital.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Hence the two men set to work almost frantically upon alcoholics arriving in
the ward of the Akron City Hospital.
6.
... hospital a
broken man.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
7.
... hospital a
fast-moving trolley car breaks his ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
8.
... hospital a
free man.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
9.
... hospital, and
almost immediately the donor's son ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
We had been presented with a hospital, and almost immediately the donor's
son became its principal patient and would-be manager.
10.
... hospital and
visit him afterward.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
11.
... hospital and
while here he acquired some ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
Many years ago one of the leading contributors
to this book came under our care in this hospital and while here he acquired some ideas which he put into practical application
at once.
12.
... hospital arrangements,
and entreat their wives to ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
The founder and his friends channel spirituality to newcomers, hire halls, make hospital arrangements, and
entreat their wives to brew gallons of coffee.
13.
... hospital at
all.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
14.
... hospital chain
of our own.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
15.
... Hospital, citing
his experience with A.A., said: ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. John F. Stouffer, Chief Psychiatrist, Philadelphia General
Hospital, citing his experience with A.A., said: "The alcoholics we get here at Philadelphia General
are mostly those who cannot
afford private treatment, and A.A. is by far the greatest thing we have been able to offer them.
16.
... hospital experience,
has stepped over the threshold ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience, has stepped over the threshold of that home into
freedom.
17.
... hospital for
alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental,
let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged
this movement.
18.
... hospital for
the mental and physical rehabilitation ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
My brother-in-law is a physician, and through
his kindness and that of my mother I was placed in a nationally-known hospital for the mental and physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.
19.
... hospital for
the treatment of alcoholic and ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
20.
... hospital for
treatment.
BB p.145,
To Employers
21.
... hospital, he
capitulated entirely when, later, in ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Impressed by those who
visited him at the hospital, he capitulated entirely when, later, in an
upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own.
22.
... hospital, he
was approached by an alcoholic ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
One night, when confined in a hospital, he
was approached by an alcoholic who had known a
spiritual experience.
23.
... hospital I
was separated from alcohol for ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
24.
... hospital, I
would not have taken you, ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
Had you offered yourselves as patients
at this hospital, I would not have taken you, if I had been able to
avoid it.
25.
... hospital if
I had been drinking, and ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
During the subsequent
fifteen years I had sense enough never to go to the hospital if I had been drinking,
and very seldom did I receive patients.
26.
... Hospital in
Akron, Ohio, one of the ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
In this prodigy of service, he was well assisted by Sister Ignatia at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio, one of the greatest friends our Fellowship
will ever know.
27.
... hospital in
despair.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
28.
... hospital in
New York.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
29.
... hospital meantime.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
30.
... hospital or
any other?
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
As generous as Charlie
has been to us, don't you see that we can't tie this thing up with his hospital or any other?
31.
... hospital or
sanitarium experiences.
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
32.
... hospital procedure,
before psychological measures can be ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
Of course an alcoholic
ought to be freed from his
physical craving for liquor, and this often requires a definite hospital procedure, before psychological
measures can be of maximum benefit.
33.
... hospital, puzzled
and humiliated.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
34.
... hospital, recently
made this statement to some ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
One of these men, staff member of a world-renowned hospital, recently made this statement to some
of us: "What you say about the general hopelessness
of the average alcoholic's plight is, in
my opinion, correct.
35.
... hospital specializing
in alcoholic and drug addiction, ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
A well-known doctor, chief physician at a nationally prominent
hospital specializing
in alcoholic and drug addiction, gave Alcoholics Anonymous
this letter:
36.
... hospital the
thought came that there were ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
While I lay in the hospital the thought came that there were thousands of hopeless alcoholics who might be glad to have what had been so freely given me.
37.
... hospital to
rest his nerves.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
38.
... hospital to
select still others from the ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
Arrangements were also
made with the chief psychiatrist of a large
public hospital to select still others from the stream of misery which flows through that institution.
39.
... hospital used
to make back in the ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
Handing it to me, he continued, 'This shows the
kind of money the hospital used to make back in the 1920's.
40.
... hospital where
he had gone to recover ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
We first saw Fred about a year ago in a hospital where he had gone to recover from a bad case of jitters.
41.
... hospital, where
he occupied the very room ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
He consented, however, to go to the hospital, where he occupied the very room recently vacated by the lawyer.
42.
... Hospital, where
I asked Dr. Silkworth if ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
43.
... hospital where
they attempted to help me, ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted
to help me, but I would get my
friends to smuggle me a
quart, or I would steal the
alcohol about the building, so that I got rapidly worse.
44.
... hospital with
unbearable mental and physical suffering.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
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