From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... patient.
BB p.105,
To Wives
2.
... patient.
BB p.118,
To Wives
Be patient.
3.
... patient and
would-be manager.
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.
4.
... patient during
treatment.
BB p.144,
To Employers
We suggest you draw the book to the attention of the
doctor who is to attend
your patient during treatment.
5.
... patient, generous;
even modest and self-sacrificing.
BB p.61,
How It Works
6.
... patient had
made his own diagnosis, and ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
The patient had made his own diagnosis, and deciding his situation
hopeless, had hidden in
a deserted barn determined to die.
7.
... patient improvement.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
8.
... patient's inner
resistance so that which is ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
I now conceive the psychiatrist's job to be
the task of breaking down the patient's inner resistance so that
which is inside him will flower, as under the activity of the A.A. program."
9.
... patient is
able, while acutely depressed, realization ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
If the book is read the moment the patient is able, while acutely depressed, realization of his condition may come to him.
10.
... patient, realizing
they are dealing with a ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
11.
... patient striving
may be necessary.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
12.
... patient the
truth about his condition, whatever ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
We hope the doctor will tell the patient the truth about his condition, whatever that
happens to be.
13.
... patient there.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
14.
... patient to
accept any sort of treatment ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist:
"As a psychiatrist, I have thought a great deal about the relationship of my specialty to A.A. and I have
come to the conclusion
that our particular function can very often lie in preparing the way for the
patient to accept any sort of treatment or outside help.
15.
... patient waiting,
but it will be worth ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
16.
... patient who,
though he had been a ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman
of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless.
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