A. A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

"We may be wearing bigger blinders than we know," a psychiatrist is quoted as saying in the Nassau Medical News, organ of the county medical society in a front page article on A.A. in its fall number. According to the canon of a Long Island cathedral, the Baldwin, N. Y., Group helped the doctor who prepared the article. "An amazing thing has happened," the article begins. "A group of laymen with no training in medicine or psychology has built up in the past 12 years a system of treatment for alcoholics that his produced unbelievable results." After telling why A.A. succeeds where "medicine and religion had admittedly failed," the doctor discusses the varying attitude of psychiatrists with the conclusion voiced by one, "It is highly imperative for us as presumably open-minded scientists to view wisely and long the efforts of others in our field of work." The article ends by telling Nassau county doctors how to reach the Garden City, Manhasset and Baldwin Groups.