AA Big Book Quote 1/3
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AA Big Book Quote 1/3
WE OF Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the
reader will be interested in the medical estimate
of the plan of recovery described in this book. 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. A
well known doctor, chief physician at a nationally
prominent hospital specializing in alcoholic and drug
addiction, gave Alcoholics Anonymous this letter:
To Whom It May Concern:
I have specialized in the treatment of alcoholism for many
years.
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been
a competent business man of good earning capacity, was an
alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless.
In the course of his third treatment he acquired certain
ideas concerning a possible means of recovery. As part of
his rehabilitation he commenced to present his conceptions
to other alcoholics, impressing upon them that they must
do likewise with still others. This has become the basis of
a rapidly growing fellowship of these men and their families.
This man and over one hundred others appear to have
recovered.
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book, Online Version, The Doctor's Opinion. Pg.1
reader will be interested in the medical estimate
of the plan of recovery described in this book. 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. A
well known doctor, chief physician at a nationally
prominent hospital specializing in alcoholic and drug
addiction, gave Alcoholics Anonymous this letter:
To Whom It May Concern:
I have specialized in the treatment of alcoholism for many
years.
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been
a competent business man of good earning capacity, was an
alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless.
In the course of his third treatment he acquired certain
ideas concerning a possible means of recovery. As part of
his rehabilitation he commenced to present his conceptions
to other alcoholics, impressing upon them that they must
do likewise with still others. This has become the basis of
a rapidly growing fellowship of these men and their families.
This man and over one hundred others appear to have
recovered.
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book, Online Version, The Doctor's Opinion. Pg.1
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