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June 1967

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Hospitals and Alcoholics

Dr. Stanley E. Gitlow, associate clinical professor of medicine at the New York Medical College, scored general hospitals for their "refusal to admit the alcoholic as a person suffering from a disease that requires medical treatment just as urgently as persons who suffer from other diseases."

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