While he was in medical school, Al, a 46-year-old familyphysician, felt "a hole inside of me that needed filling." He filledit with alcohol.
By the time he was practicing at a major academic medicalcenter, he was getting drunk nightly to escape from feeling insecureand also from his distress over being a closeted homosexual.
"I drank in isolation. I needed to drink to deal with stress.I needed to drink to get to sleep," he said.
Eventually, he said, the alcohol and the hangovers began to getin the way of his work.
"My problems were painfully obvious to my colleagues. I waslate to work. I called in sick all the time," said Al, who askedthat his …
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