Alcoholic doctors.

Doctors are more vulnerable than the average citizen to alcohol dependence. Causal factors may include social conditioning, the patterns of drinking in medical schools and in early professional life, the responsible nature of the work and the associated emotional control. Statutory controls are an unfortunate necessity but informal schemes to provide help may have a valuable therapeutic and preventive function. For the future the hope may lie in promoting more intensive education concerning alcohol issues at all stages of medical education. The Medical Council on Alcoholism has an important part to play in this connection.