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Provider-neutral direct to consumer advertising

April 16, 2008

Dear NP Colleague: 
 
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) 
continues to work with the pharmaceutical and medical 
device industry to encourage provider-neutral language in 
all direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads. To that end, we have 
created a petition to further demonstrate the importance of 
this issue to the NP discipline. Please take a few minutes 
and click here to read and sign the petition. 
 
Please forward this message to your NP colleagues, as well 
as others you believe will support this initiative. We will 
post details on the progress of the petition on our Web 
site (www.aanp.org) over the next few weeks. 
 
If you have any difficulties with the link, please copy and 
paste the following URL into your browser: 
http://66.219.50.185/petition  
 
Thank you for taking the time to support this important 
issue. 
 
Sincerely, 
 
Mona Counts, PhD, CRNP, FNAP, FAANP 
Judith Dempster, DNSc, FNP, FAANP 
AANP President  
AANP Executive Director