Impaired Physicians

About 10% of doctors struggle with addiction to alcohol and drugs at some point in their career. How does this affect their skills and their patients? What are the protocols to force them to get help? How likely are doctors to recover when they enter treatment?

Dick’s guest, Dr. Michael Miller is a board certified addiction psychiatrist and recently served as president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and has led the Physicians Health Program in Wisconsin for 12 years.

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