Revisiting AAFP and Coke

[Guest guest]

I ran across an interesting post and found in addition an easy to read and

informative blog:

http://www.weightymatters.ca/

Dr Freedhoff has been keeping an eye on the AAFP-Coke relationship and reviewing

the results.

I post today to express my increasing dismay with the choices made by my

specialty society. In these troubled times for primary care we must stand

together for our profession and our selection of primary care as specialty.

Ours is a noble profession granted rights and vested with responsibilities

beyond most other human endeavor. We debase ourselves when we follow a path

that appears to put our wallet before our ethics.

I am reasonably certain that the AAFP would never have considered the

relationship had they not been financially pressed but this was an unfortunate

solution.

Gordon