[To your health, a toast to you, colleague...]

Using a medical district association meeting as an example, the problem of 'alcohol and doctors' is considered. According to numerous authors, doctors belong to a special alcohol risk population, although hardly anyone else is better acquainted with the risk of alcohol. With some courage and improved knowledge of the problem, one should be able to prevent a friend or a colleague from excessive alcohol abuse. The prognosis is by no means bad.