Joining NFL may not be seen as much of a carreer move! We have no money, no career structure, and you are unlikely to get a new year's honour. You will lose all the hospitality perks like lunches, nights out, trips and all the rest. Indeed some of your colleagues might think you a mad crazed lefty.
On the flip side: no more awful sycophantic meetings; no more droning “expert” lectures; no longer will you have that nagging sense of guilt. You also will have the opportunity to seem poised and give your colleagues the “how can you live with yourself” look.
What we want from you.............
- A commitment to take and display the Oath
- A commitment to end our professional silence. If what see is unacceptable then say so!
- A commitment to contact local universities and post graduate departments asking that they organize education on the industry.
- A willingness to lead this education
Goals
- We want a public debate – to make the public aware of what,s going on
- We want the medical professions to end their silence and acknowledge that we have a problem.
- We want medical schools to offer specific teaching about the marketing of medications.
- We want a review of the role of the APBI and a new “watchdog” that isn't just a passive bystander
- Our key demand ,however, is for an open, public register of all contact, hospitality and payments between NHS doctors and the industry. This would be the responsibility of the Industry to maintain as they hold all this information currently anyway. If there isn’t a problem why would anyone object to such a scheme?.