Word: clinicians
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...drawl that has survived his years in Boston. "That led me to say, 'Well, gosh, anybody can tell whether a new baby's O.K. or not. What is it we're going by?' Then I began to put together all these things that any good clinician uses. Very little about the scale was really new. It was a compilation of a lot of clinical observations that hadn't been documented...
...described only in grays, not in black or white, says that it all depends on how sick the alcoholic is: "If you have a little bit of alcoholism, as if you have a little bit of diabetes, you can control it." But Vaillant warns, "By the time a clinician identifies a person as an alcoholic, it's almost always too late to return to social drinking." On this issue, Vaillant is supported by the National Council on Alcoholism. Says Dr. Sheila Blume, medical director of the N.C.A.: "The alcohol-dependent or loss-of-control alcoholic is not able...