Subj: Is it time for another boycott? Date: 97-04-12 16:43:54 EDT From: Marshalact To: [log in to unmask] Given the amount of hard work that Ross Labs and Mead Johnson have been doing lately regarding purchasing contracts and false advertising for their new products, maybe all of us are making a difference!! I wonder if it is now time to take things a step further. Perhaps it is time to boycott Ross Labs and its parent Abbott Laboratories and Mead Johnson and its parent Bristol-Myers Squibb. While they both make pharmaceutical products they also are pusing the nutrition products they make quite heavily (Boost, Sustacal, Ensure, Pediasure, Toddler Formula,) and all the other formula for children and adults. We can boycott much of their over the counter medications and all their toddler formulas etc. I get tired of hearing how they are thwarting us at each turn. There are many ways to stop what they are doing. How about exposing it to the public for what it is - bribery and commercial control of health care provision. How about leaking this to the press. How many of you have investigative reporters at your major city newspapers and local TV stations? How about a call to them. We need all of you to form hospital task forces and work as a group from within the institution. The LC on a white horse will not be able to stop all that is happening. Do not take no for an answer. Quality Improvement groups can make a difference. How about letting patients know that their health care is being dictated by formula companies whose threats to hospitals have administrators worried more about protecting the companies and less about quality of patient care and health. Let me know how I can help