title: The impaired physician: the Arizona experience.
abstract: The Arizona Board of Medical Examiners has developed in the past six years a program for rehabilitating impaired physicians who practice in the State of Arizona. The program is outlined in the article and the results show an 87.8 per cent rehabilitation rate for those doctors entering the program. Impaired physicians are required (with a few exceptions) to enter an approved inpatient program for three to four weeks; continue in an after care program following discharge from the inpatient program; and remain under Board control until rehabilitated. They are allowed to reenter practice following successful completion of the inpatient program.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000534:rehabilitation; D001130:Arizona; D006801:Humans; D008007:Licensure, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010815:Physician Impairment; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation