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My Drug Problem

Tim Wolter, MD

Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(3):209-210.

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IT HAS taken me a while to come to grips with it but I have concluded that I have a drug problem.

No, I do not use illicit drugs. In the rather unlikely event that I am ever nominated for high public office, a painstaking scrutiny of even my college years will pass muster with the most zealous of congressional investigators or the lowest delving muckraker.

No, I do not self-prescribe, divert, or otherwise seek prescription drugs. Indeed, like most physicians I maintain a sort of aloof aversion to obtaining any medical care for myself.

No, I do not drink to excess or use tobacco beyond the occasional celebratory cigar on the birth of a child, a deliciously Freudian custom that I see as the sole appropriate use of the nefarious weed.

My drug problem is this: I over-prescribe antibiotics.

I imagine that this confession will be met not with . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]


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St Joseph's Hospital Chippewa Falls, Wis






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