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The impaired physician, Part II: Missouri State Physicians Health Program
G M Bohigian1, J L Croughan, K Sanders
1Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Washington University School of Medicine/Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.
Missouri Medicine
|June 1, 1994
Abstract:
Missouri Physicians Health Program (MPHP) was established to help impaired physicians return to healthy personal and professional lives. One percent of Missouri physicians will suffer some sort of impairment; ie: substance abuse, or dependency of drugs or alcohol within a year. This is a confidential voluntary program. This program of early referral, intervention, treatment and monitoring advocacy has been highly successful. The average recovery rate in this study of 75 participants was 92%.