Health care professionals are human beings, and like everybody else they can get sick, divorced, or become chemically dependent. The need for early intervention, intensive treatment, and extended aftercare monitoring are often indicated when dealing with those whose well-being directly affects the general safety and welfare of the community. Healing the Healer is both a professional book about effective interventions in the treatment of physicians, nurses, and other health care personnel and an authentic account of a physician's struggle with alcoholism. The work considers treatment of medical personnel in various settings (private practice, hospitals, managed care), aftercare, relapse and recovery, family issues, comorbidity, legal considerations, and the special problems of women physicians. Talbott, a recognized authority on the treatment of alcoholic physicians and his co-authors who are also experts in the field present an authoritative guide for the treatment of addicted medical personnel.