From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... medicine as
well as with the men ...
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.
2.
... medicine cabinet
where there was poison, cursing ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
Again I swayed dizzily before an open window, or the medicine cabinet where there was
poison, cursing myself for a weakling.
3.
... medicine can
do little.
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
If we do not do so, we shall stand convicted of emotional sterility and
of having lost the faith that
moves mountains, without which medicine can do
little.
4.
... medicine, entering
one of the largest universities ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My next move was to take up the study of medicine, entering one of the largest universities
in the country.
5.
... medicine, religion,
and the press, together with ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Another reason for the wide acceptance of A.A. was the ministration
of friends -- friends in
medicine, religion, and
the press, together with
innumerable others
who became our able and persistent advocates.
6.
... medicine, though
some ideas upon which success ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
The basic principles of
A.A., as they are known today, were borrowed mainly from the fields of religion and medicine, though some ideas upon which success finally depended were the
result of noting the behavior and needs of the Fellowship itself.
7.
... medicine, we'd
resolve their differences.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
With one arm around the shoulder of religion and the other around the shoulder of
medicine, we'd resolve
their differences.
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