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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
... medical?   12&12 p.156, Tradition Six
Was A.A. spiritual or was it medical?


2.
... medical advice as the sprees got closer ...   BB p.106, To Wives   Go to page 106 in the Big Book
We began to ask medical advice as the sprees got closer together.


3.
... medical and religious friends will be found ...   BB xx, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
Some of the recommendations of A.A.'s early medical and religious friends will be found further on in this book.


4.
... medical, and religious societies will be welcomed.   BB xiv, Foreword to First Edition   Display entire Foreword to First Edition
Inquiry by scientific, medical, and religious societies will be welcomed.


5.
... Medical Association in 1946, over the NBC ...   BB p.570(572), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
Dr. W. W. Bauer, broadcasting under the auspices of The American Medical Association in 1946, over the NBC network, said, in part: "Alcoholics Anonymous are no crusaders; not a temperance society.


6.
... medical attention.   BB p.21, There Is A Solution   Go to page 21 in the Big Book
If a sufficiently strong reason -- ill health, falling in love, change of environment, or the warning of a doctor -- becomes operative, this man can also stop or moderate, although he may find it difficult and troublesome and may even need medical attention.


7.
... medical attention, he should understand that he ...   BB p.143, To Employers   Go to page 143 in the Big Book
Though you are providing him with the best possible medical attention, he should understand that he must undergo a change of heart.


8.
... medical benefactor.   BB xi, Preface   Display entire Preface
The section called "The Doctor's Opinion" has been kept intact, just as it was originally written in 1939 by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, our Society's great medical benefactor.


9.
... Medical Director of one of the oldest ...   BB xxvii(xxv), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
I say this after many years' experience as Medical Director of one of the oldest hospitals in the country treating alcoholic and drug addiction.


10.
... medical estimate of the plan of recovery ...   BB xxv(xxiii), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
We of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the reader will be interested in the medical estimate of the plan of recovery described in this book.


11.
... medical fraternity.   BB p.34, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 34 in the Big Book
The experiment of quitting for a period of time will be helpful, but we think we can render an even greater service to alcoholic sufferers and perhaps to the medical fraternity.


12.
... medical importance; because of the extraordinary possibilities ...   BB xxv(xxiii), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
These facts appear to be of extreme medical importance; because of the extraordinary possibilities of rapid growth inherent in this group they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism.


13.
... medical men who have had experience with ...   BB xxv(xxiii), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
Convincing testimony must surely come from medical men who have had experience with the sufferings of our members and have witnessed our return to health.

14.
... medical or religious.   12&12 p.166, Tradition Eight
Almost no recovery from alcoholism has ever been brought about by the world's best professionals, whether medical or religious.

15.
... medical papers about Alcoholics Anonymous and call ...   12&12 p.180, Tradition Eleven
Doctors read medical papers about Alcoholics Anonymous and call for more information.


16.
... medical point of view, though we cooperate ...   BB xx, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
Neither does A.A. take any particular medical point of view, though we cooperate widely with the men of medicine as well as with the men of religion.


17.
... medical profession have a low opinion of ...   BB p.73, Into Action   Go to page 73 in the Big Book
Small wonder many in the medical profession have a low opinion of alcoholics and their chance for recovery!


18.
... medical, psychiatric, social, and religious.   BB p.19, There Is A Solution   Go to page 19 in the Big Book
Of necessity there will have to be discussion of matters medical, psychiatric, social, and religious.


19.
... medical saint by A.A. members, and whose ...   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.

20.
... medical societies.   12&12 p.186, Tradition Twelve
Soon, groups began to receive requests for A.A. speakers to appear before civic organizations, church groups, and medical societies.


21.
... medical societies and physicians throughout the world ...   BB p.569(571), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
Since Dr. Silkworth's first endorsement of Alcoholics Anonymous, medical societies and physicians throughout the world have set their approval upon us.


22.
... Medical Societies by Bill W." -- formerly called ...   BB p.570(572), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
(This address is now available in pamphlet form at nominal cost through most A.A. groups or from Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, under the title "Three Talks to Medical Societies by Bill W." -- formerly called "Bill on Alcoholism" and earlier "Alcoholism the Illness.")


23.
... Medical Society of the State of New ...   BB p.569(571), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
Following are excerpts from the comments of doctors present at the annual meeting (1944) of the Medical Society of the State of New York where a paper on A.A. was read:

24.
... medical textbooks.   12&12 p.155, Tradition Six
People needed to be told what alcoholism was, so we'd educate the public, even rewrite school and medical textbooks.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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