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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... hospital.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
After a
time I
returned to
the
hospital.
2.
... hospital.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
One
day we were told that he was back in the
hospital.
3.
... hospital.
BB p.110,
To Wives
Sometimes he
drinks on the way
home from the
hospital.
4.
... hospital.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
One
day they called up the
head
nurse of a
local hospital.
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
Trembling, I
stepped
from the
hospital a
broken
man.
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
That
afternoon he
put on
his
clothes and
walked
from the
hospital a
free man.
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
They were
willing, by
day or
night, to place a new
man in
the
hospital and
visit him
afterward.
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
13.
... hospital chain
of our own.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
Hospitals didn't like
alcoholics, so we
thought we'd
build a
hospital chain of our
own.
14.
... 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.
15.
... 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.
16.
... 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.
17.
... hospital for
the mental and physical rehabilitation ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
18.
... hospital for
the treatment of alcoholic and ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
In one of these there is a well-
known hospital for the
treatment of
alcoholic and
drug addiction.
19.
... hospital for
treatment.
BB p.145,
To Employers
In another
case, an
alcoholic was
sent to a
hospital for
treatment.
20.
... 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.
21.
... hospital, he
was approached by an alcoholic ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
22.
... hospital I
was separated from alcohol for ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
At the
hospital I was
separated from
alcohol
for the
last time.
23.
... 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.
24.
... hospital in
despair.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
Many
times I have
gone to my
old hospital in
despair.
25.
... hospital in
New York.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
"One
day I was doing a
Twelfth Step job at a
hospital in New
York.
26.
... hospital meantime.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
He
tried to
regulate his
drinking for a while,
making several
trips to the
hospital meantime.
27.
... 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?
28.
... hospital procedure,
before psychological measures can be ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
29.
... hospital, puzzled
and humiliated.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
In
two months he was in a
hospital,
puzzled and
humiliated.
30.
... 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.
31.
... hospital specializing
in alcoholic and drug addiction, ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
32.
... 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.
33.
... hospital to
rest his nerves.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
Far from
admitting he was an
alcoholic, he told himself he
came to the
hospital to
rest his
nerves.
34.
... 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.
35.
... 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.
36.
... 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.
37.
... 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.
38.
... Hospital, where
I asked Dr. Silkworth if ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
"So I
hopped the
subway to
Towns Hospital, where I
asked Dr.
Silkworth if he had a
prospect.
39.
... hospital with
unbearable mental and physical suffering.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
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