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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MEDICINE occurs
6 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... 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, religion,
and the press, together with ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
5.
... 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.
6.
... 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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