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The Saturday Evening Post magazine, October 18, 1952.
This issue features the article "I'm a Nurse in an alcoholic
ward" by Anonymous, a former alcoholic. The article focuses on her
experiences at the AA ward at New York City's Knickerbocker Hospital,
which she loves. It runs over six pages, and includes photos. It
describes the origins of AA in 1935, and the various hospitals which
began to offer medical treatment of alcoholism; it shows how easy it is
to fall into the alcohol trap, with several examples. |
Sat Evening Post 1952
w/article "I'm a nurse in an alcoholic ward" this article is
about nurse "Teddy" Dr. Silkworth's nurse at the alcoholic ward in the "Knickerbocker" hospital and their care for the alcoholics.
Remember it wasn't many years before this article that "alcoholics" were not very
welcomed into "general" hospitals as this.....This is one of
the most sensational articles ever written about the AA program and it's positive effects on patients in a hospital setting
and being
cared for by no less than the same Dr. Paul ("who loved
drunks") that wrote the "Doctors Letter's" in the
"Dr.'s Opinion" in the beginning of our big book
(where the disease/illness is
out-lined
so explicitly by the Dr.) .. |
