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Physicians and Alcoholics; the Effect of Medical Training on Attitudes Toward Alcoholics
Joseph C. Fisher, Robert L. Mason, Kim A. Keeley, Joseph V. Fisher
SUMMARY. The over-all ratings assigned by first- and second-gear medical students and housestaff (residents and interns) to alcoholics on a 16-adjective bipolar semantic differential measure differed significantly. Mean ratings by the housestaff were lowest and the ratings by the second-year students were lower than those of the first-year students on 5 of the 6 adjective pairs on which the groups differed significantly.
