Family-practice residents rated alcoholics as weaker, sicker and more hopeless and aimless than average persons on an adjective semantic differential, and diabetics as sicker than average persons. The implications for the diagnosis and treatment of alcoholism are discussed.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Fisher et al. (1975) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 2 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: