Healing the Healer: The Addicted Physician

By Daniel H. Angres and G. Douglas Talbott

Book Overview

This book is a comprehensive guide on the recognition, assessment, treatment and follow-up care for addicted physicians. It includes outcome data, program design, issues for family members and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887841490
• ISBN13: 9781887841498
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: International Universities Press, Incorporated
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Informative

This book addresses the reality of the disease and the uniqueness of the medical family dynamic. It is helpful for those in the recovery process, those concerned that a problem exists,and those who work with an impaired or recovering physician. Societal issues related to alcoholism make it difficult for people to accept alcoholism as a disease and this book gives you the facts to support it.

A must for ALL health care professionals in recovery!!!!!!

This book focuses on the addicted health care professional, be it a physician, pharmacist, or nurse, among others. It give concise, plain English answers to many qusetions concerning the addicted healer. Healers, by virtue of their ready acces to their drugs of choice have many different situations to deal with apart from their non-medical addict cohorts. This book touches them all. This book can potentially save the life of your doctor or pharmacist!!!!