From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... medical?
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
2.
... medical advice
as the sprees got closer ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
3.
... medical and
religious friends will be found ...
BB xx,
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
5.
... Medical Association
in 1946, over the NBC ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
16.
... medical point
of view, though we cooperate ...
BB xx,
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
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
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
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 services
without thought of charge.
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
To 1950, the year of his death, he carried the A.A. message to more than 5,000 alcoholic men and women, and to all these he gave
his medical services without thought of charge.
21.
... 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.
22.
... medical societies
and physicians throughout the world ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Since Dr. Silkworth's first endorsement of Alcoholics Anonymous,
medical societies and physicians throughout
the world have set their approval upon us.
23.
... Medical Societies
by Bill W." -- formerly called ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
(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.")
24.
... Medical Society
of the State of New ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
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:
25.
... 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.
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