One of the many eye-opening experiences for us in medical school was seeing beer on our teaching hospital's formulary. It's a holdover from the days before current withdrawal regimens . Indeed, the interaction between the medical establishment and the beer world goes way back.
Today we'll dwell primarily on one aspect of this interaction -- a Prohibition-era skirmish over a physician's right to serve beer. Indeed, long before the debate on medical marijuana, there was ... medical beer.
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