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Help for the Alcoholic Physician in California

Help for the Alcoholic Physician in California John A. Newsorn, M.D. HAVE BEEN INVOLVED in helping other Orange County Medical Association’s executive I alcoholic physicians in California for the committee. A 24-hr on-call telephone service past few years. My main motivation for entering was provided by another recovering physician into this type of service is because I am a and myself. The cost of adding the extra recovering alcoholic and drug addict, with over telephone number to the existing Orange six years of continuous abstinence from addict- County Medical Association telephone lines ing chemicals, and I find that helping other alco- was about $15 per month. This private holic physicians helps me to maintain my ab- telephone number was publicized in the internal stinence. I currently divide my professional time news media of the Orange County Medical between a general practice in Laguna Beach, Association and their women’s auxiliary. Calif. and as the Medical Director of the CARE Initially, the physician’s hot-line received Unit (Comprehensive Alcoholic Rehabilitative about one call per month, which is relatively few Environment) at South Coast Hospital in South considering that there are over 1600 physicians Laguna. I was past chairman of the Orange in the Orange County Medical Association. I County http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research Wiley

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Copyright © 1977 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0145-6008
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1530-0277
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10.1111/j.1530-0277.1977.tb05860.x
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John A. Newsorn, M.D. HAVE BEEN INVOLVED in helping other Orange County Medical Association’s executive I alcoholic physicians in California for the committee. A 24-hr on-call telephone service past few years. My main motivation for entering was provided by another recovering physician into this type of service is because I am a and myself. The cost of adding the extra recovering alcoholic and drug addict, with over telephone number to the existing Orange six years of continuous abstinence from addict- County Medical Association telephone lines ing chemicals, and I find that helping other alco- was about $15 per month. This private holic physicians helps me to maintain my ab- telephone number was publicized in the internal stinence. I currently divide my professional time news media of the Orange County Medical between a general practice in Laguna Beach, Association and their women’s auxiliary. Calif. and as the Medical Director of the CARE Initially, the physician’s hot-line received Unit (Comprehensive Alcoholic Rehabilitative about one call per month, which is relatively few Environment) at South Coast Hospital in South considering that there are over 1600 physicians Laguna. I was past chairman of the Orange in the Orange County Medical Association. I County

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Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research – Wiley

Published: Apr 1, 1977

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