The Vision for You That Leads to a Road of Happy Destiny – Conway H.

About This Speaker Tape

IDAA - 1988

A straitjacket and ten days of DTs marked the bottom for Dr. Hunter H. a gynecologist whose career collapsed into public humiliation and disgrace. After being fired from his hospital he found a lifeline in the home of Dr. John M. experiencing a profound spiritual awakening on November 13 1966 that stripped away the obsession to drink. He rebuilt his life from the wreckage eventually returning to the same hospital that fired him to serve as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. He describes a period of his life where he treated alcoholics in his office after hours initially for free until a nominal one-dollar fee miraculously improved their recovery rates. His narrative culminates in a recent open-heart surgery where the entire surgical team—surgeon assistant and anesthesiologist—were members of the program a coincidence he views as a divine miracle.

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Timestamps

• 0:00 Conway H. opens by discussing the 'Vision for You' chapter of the Big Book.
• 4:15 Detailed breakdown of the history of Bill W. and Dr. Bob's meeting in Akron.
• 8:30 Reading and analysis of the final paragraph of the Big Book.
• 10:15 Recounting the DTs, the straitjacket, and the doctor who told the nurse to 'let him die'.
• 14:20 The spiritual awakening of November 13, 1966, and the removal of the obsession.
• 18:45 Discussing the balance of anonymity and being a 'recovering doctor' in the medical community.
• 22:10 Laughter: The story of charging $1 for visits to improve patient outcomes.
• 26:30 Description of the 'Higher Power list' in the back of his 24-hour book.
• 31:15 Meeting his wife, Charlotte, and walking the 'road of happy destiny' hand in hand.
• 34:40 The emergency open-heart surgery and the 'miracle' of the AA surgical team.