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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 mostsensational 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.)

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