The most important thing for those of you battling the contract to know is that the formula companies need you more than you need them. The administration does not realize this, but they should, and it's up to you to teach them. The formula company already gets lots of advertising in your using their product. There is no more reason a formula company cannot donate to a hospital than a bank, say. They just should not get any special privileges for it. Hope that the ethics committee really is an ethics committee. Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC