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Some of the recommendations of A.A.'s early medical and religious friends will be found further on in this book.
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5.
Dr. W. W. Bauer, broadcasting under the auspices of The American
Medical Association in 1946, over the NBC network, said, in part: "Alcoholics Anonymous are
no crusaders; not a temperance society.
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If a sufficiently strong reason -- ill health, falling in love, change of environment, or
the warning of a doctor --
becomes operative, this
man can also stop or moderate, although he may find it difficult and troublesome and may even need medical attention.
7.
Though you are providing
him with the best possible
medical attention, he
should understand that he must undergo a change of heart.
8.
The section called "The Doctor's Opinion" has been kept intact, just as it was originally written in 1939 by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, our
Society's great medical benefactor.
9.
I say this after many years' experience as Medical Director of one of the oldest hospitals in the country treating alcoholic and drug addiction.
10.
We of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the
reader will be interested in the medical estimate of the plan of recovery described in this
book.
11.
The experiment of quitting for a period of time will be helpful, but we think we can render an even greater service to alcoholic sufferers and
perhaps to the medical fraternity.
12.
... medical importance;
because of the extraordinary possibilities ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
These facts appear to be of
extreme medical importance; because of the
extraordinary possibilities of rapid growth inherent in this group they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism.
13.
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.
14.
Almost no recovery from alcoholism
has ever been brought about
by the world's best professionals, whether
medical or religious.
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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.
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Small wonder many in the medical profession have a low opinion of alcoholics and
their chance for recovery!
18.
Of necessity there will
have to be discussion of matters medical, psychiatric, social, and
religious.
19.
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.
20.
To 1950, the year of his death, he carried the A.A. message to more than 5,000 alcoholic men and women, and to all these he gave
his medical services without thought of charge.
21.
Soon, groups began to receive requests for A.A. speakers to appear before civic organizations, church groups, and medical societies.
22.
... medical societies
and physicians throughout the world ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Since Dr. Silkworth's first endorsement of Alcoholics Anonymous,
medical societies and physicians throughout
the world have set their approval upon us.
23.
... Medical Societies
by Bill W." -- formerly called ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
(This address is now available in pamphlet form at nominal cost through most A.A. groups or from Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, under the title "Three Talks to Medical Societies by Bill W." -- formerly called "Bill on Alcoholism" and earlier "Alcoholism the Illness.")
24.
Following are excerpts
from the comments of doctors present at the annual meeting(*) of the Medical Society of the State of New York where a paper on A.A. was read:
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People needed to be told what alcoholism was, so
we'd educate the public, even rewrite school and medical textbooks.
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The second printing of the
first edition added the appendix "Spiritual Experience";
in the second edition, the
appendices on A.A. Tradition, the "medical view" and "religious view" of A.A., the Lasker Award and information on how to contact A.A. were added, and the appendix on the
Alcoholic Foundation
was discontinued.
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