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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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HOSPITAL   occurs   44 times 37 in BB  •  7 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... Hospital.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
Hence the two men set to work almost frantically upon alcoholics arriving in the ward of the Akron City Hospital.


2.
  ... hospital.  BB Bill's Story, p.7
After a time I returned to the hospital.


3.
  ... hospital.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
One day we were told that he was back in the hospital.


4.
  ... hospital.  BB To Wives, p.110
Sometimes he drinks on the way home from the hospital.


5.
  ... hospital.  BB A Vision For You, p.156
One day they called up the head nurse of a local hospital.


6.
  ... hospital a broken man.  BB Bill's Story, p.8
Trembling, I stepped from the hospital a broken man.


7.
  ... hospital a fast-moving trolley car breaks his ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
Within a week after leaving the hospital a fast-moving trolley car breaks his arm.


8.
  ... hospital a free man.  BB A Vision For You, p.158
That afternoon he put on his clothes and walked from the hospital a free man.


9.
  ... hospital, and almost immediately the donor's son ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
We had been presented with a hospital, and almost immediately the donor's son became its principal patient and would-be manager.


10.
  ... hospital and visit him afterward.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
They were willing, by day or night, to place a new man in the hospital and visit him afterward.


11.
  ... hospital and while here he acquired some ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
Many years ago one of the leading contributors to this book came under our care in this hospital and while here he acquired some ideas which he put into practical application at once.


12.
  ... hospital arrangements, and entreat their wives to ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
The founder and his friends channel spirituality to newcomers, hire halls, make hospital arrangements, and entreat their wives to brew gallons of coffee.


13.
  ... hospital at all.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
During these two years I was kept so busy that I hardly left the hospital at all.


14.
  ... hospital chain of our own.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
Hospitals didn't like alcoholics, so we thought we'd build a hospital chain of our own.


15.
  ... Hospital, citing his experience with A.A., said: ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
Dr. John F. Stouffer, Chief Psychiatrist, Philadelphia General Hospital, citing his experience with A.A., said: "The alcoholics we get here at Philadelphia General are mostly those who cannot afford private treatment, and A.A. is by far the greatest thing we have been able to offer them.


16.
  ... hospital experience, has stepped over the threshold ...  BB A Vision For You, p.160
Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience, has stepped over the threshold of that home into freedom.


17.
  ... hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement.


18.
  ... hospital for the mental and physical rehabilitation ...  BB Bill's Story, p.7
My brother-in-law is a physician, and through his kindness and that of my mother I was placed in a nationally-known hospital for the mental and physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.


19.
  ... hospital for the treatment of alcoholic and ...  BB A Vision For You, pp.161-162
In one of these there is a well-known hospital for the treatment of alcoholic and drug addiction.


20.
  ... hospital for treatment.  BB To Employers, p.145
In another case, an alcoholic was sent to a hospital for treatment.


21.
  ... hospital, he capitulated entirely when, later, in ...  BB A Vision For You, p.160
Impressed by those who visited him at the hospital, he capitulated entirely when, later, in an upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own.


22.
  ... hospital, he was approached by an alcoholic ...  BB We Agnostics, p.56
One night, when confined in a hospital, he was approached by an alcoholic who had known a spiritual experience.


23.
  ... hospital I was separated from alcohol for ...  BB Bill's Story, p.13
At the hospital I was separated from alcohol for the last time.


24.
  ... hospital, I would not have taken you, ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
Had you offered yourselves as patients at this hospital, I would not have taken you, if I had been able to avoid it.


25.
  ... hospital if I had been drinking, and ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
During the subsequent fifteen years I had sense enough never to go to the hospital if I had been drinking, and very seldom did I receive patients.


26.
  ... Hospital in Akron, Ohio, one of the ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
In this prodigy of service, he was well assisted by Sister Ignatia at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio, one of the greatest friends our Fellowship will ever know.


27.
  ... hospital in despair.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
Many times I have gone to my old hospital in despair.


28.
  ... hospital in New York.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
"One day I was doing a Twelfth Step job at a hospital in New York.


29.
  ... hospital meantime.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
He tried to regulate his drinking for a while, making several trips to the hospital meantime.


30.
  ... hospital or any other?  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
As generous as Charlie has been to us, don't you see that we can't tie this thing up with his hospital or any other?


31.
  ... hospital or sanitarium experiences.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
I will not take space to relate all my hospital or sanitarium experiences.


32.
  ... hospital procedure, before psychological measures can be ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, pp.xxvii-xxviii
Of course an alcoholic ought to be freed from his physical craving for liquor, and this often requires a definite hospital procedure, before psychological measures can be of maximum benefit.


33.
  ... hospital, puzzled and humiliated.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
In two months he was in a hospital, puzzled and humiliated.


34.
  ... hospital, recently made this statement to some ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
One of these men, staff member of a world-renowned hospital, recently made this statement to some of us: "What you say about the general hopelessness of the average alcoholic's plight is, in my opinion, correct.


35.
  ... hospital specializing in alcoholic and drug addiction, ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
A well-known doctor, chief physician at a nationally prominent hospital specializing in alcoholic and drug addiction, gave Alcoholics Anonymous this letter:


36.
  ... hospital the thought came that there were ...  BB Bill's Story, p.14
While I lay in the hospital the thought came that there were thousands of hopeless alcoholics who might be glad to have what had been so freely given me.


37.
  ... hospital to rest his nerves.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
Far from admitting he was an alcoholic, he told himself he came to the hospital to rest his nerves.


38.
  ... hospital to select still others from the ...  BB A Vision For You, p.163
Arrangements were also made with the chief psychiatrist of a large public hospital to select still others from the stream of misery which flows through that institution.


39.
  ... hospital used to make back in the ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
Handing it to me, he continued, 'This shows the kind of money the hospital used to make back in the 1920's.


40.
  ... hospital where he had gone to recover ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
We first saw Fred about a year ago in a hospital where he had gone to recover from a bad case of jitters.


41.
  ... hospital, where he occupied the very room ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
He consented, however, to go to the hospital, where he occupied the very room recently vacated by the lawyer.


42.
  ... Hospital, where I asked Dr. Silkworth if ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
"So I hopped the subway to Towns Hospital, where I asked Dr. Silkworth if he had a prospect.


43.
  ... hospital where they attempted to help me, ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted to help me, but I would get my friends to smuggle me a quart, or I would steal the alcohol about the building, so that I got rapidly worse.


44.
  ... hospital with unbearable mental and physical suffering.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.41
Then came the hospital with unbearable mental and physical suffering.


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