The impaired physician, Part II: Missouri State Physicians Health Program
Bohigian, G.M.; Croughan, J.L.; Sanders, K.
Missouri Medicine 91(6): 275-277
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-6620 PMID: 8052213 Document Number: 432586
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%.