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Ep 5 - The Doctors Opinion - Part 1

An agnostic reading the AA Big Book
October 15, 2026 by
Ep 5 - The Doctors Opinion - Part 1
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Ep - 5 - Agnostic reading and commentary of The Doctors Opinion - Part 1

This episode of the AA Big Book explores the Doctors Opinion. For this section we broke the Doctors Opinion into 3 parts. This is part 1 of 3. If you have comments or questions, please leave them below or on YouTube. Sober on. Odaat.

Transcript of the Agnostic Reading of the Alcoholics Anonymous book.


Ep 5 - Doctors Opinion Part 1.pdf


Hey, it's Mike Z. Today we are going to read the doctor's opinion in the A big book.
So let's just jump in the doctor's opinion. We have Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the reader will be interested in the medical estimate of the plan of recovery described in this book. Convincing testimony must surely come from the medical men who have had experience with the suffering of our members and have witnessed our return to health. A well known doctor, chief physician at a nationally prominent hospital specializing in alcohol and drug addiction gave Alcoholics Anonymous this letter. By the way, that doctor is so called.

To whom it concerns. I have specialized in the treatment of alcoholism for many years. In late 1934, I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless...

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Ep 5 - The Doctors Opinion - Part 1
Agnostic AA October 15, 2026
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