https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news-archive/2014/alcoholism-heartsink-or-microcosm
Alcoholism: Heartsink or microcosm? - University of Birmingham
Few GPs get excited by seeing known alcoholics walk into their surgery; they are the classic 'heartsink' patients, with a host of problems, often insoluble.
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