Eventually, they are so grateful. While the committee makes arrangements for treatment in a Mainland facility, the physician pays for it. After treatment is completed, the committee monitors the physician for five years. But physician health committees based in hospitals may deal with more than addiction. The stresses of medicine and the loners it attracts both play a role in the problem.
Doctors are like most executives.
They're workaholics and get lost in their jobs, and that's not healthy for anyone. But they also tend to be lone rangers and often very isolated. To get them into a group is like herding cats. Plus, they don't think they ever ought to get sick. In his own recovery, Schlesinger has never looked back.