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Charlie-- I'm not up on all the nuances of rivalries, affiliations, and turf wars, except what I read on the list, but that announcement also struck me as spoiling for trouble. A true Patient's Congress should be as unconnected as possible to any current "player." A steering committee meeting in Miami? Sure, it will be independent, right! (not that a sunny clime doesn't sound inviting in January; whenever I had to interview a doctor for an article over the holidays, he was always in Aruba for a convention.) Any Congress steering committee should meet on neutral ground, funded by contributions from as wide a group as possible: PD foundations/organizations, drug companies, grass roots PWP (I'd gladly pop for a truly independent meeting) so that no one entity predominates or feels they can run the show. I wish you were one of the twelve, with your common sense, the-emperor-has-no-clothes approach. Kathy Kunz