Reactions to Pfizer's decision to cut off funding for medical education and communication companies

As a CME coordinator for a hospital system, I fully support Pfizer's decision to eliminate funding for medical education and communication companies (“Tough Love,” July/August 2008). I think this is a good step on our way out of the commercial support mess. Pfizer is in no way making a decision about who will be accredited, as some have charged, only how they want to award their grant money. Pfizer is doing the right thing, and I hope that many of the other pharmaceutical companies will