title: Monitoring impaired physicians: a tool for relapse prevention.
abstract: Physicians experience a broad spectrum of health problems which can disrupt their personal lives and impair their ability to function professionally. Some of these illnesses--such as alcoholism and other drug dependency, and certain psychiatric disorders--are chronic. While treatment usually results in remission of active symptoms, there is a risk of relapse if necessary steps are not followed. Therefore, the key to continued recovery and stable functioning lies in effective relapse prevention.
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Ziegler
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010815:Physician Impairment; D012008:Recurrence; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*