Friends of Doctors: What the figures say...

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An analysis of the 11-March-2012 members list of "Friends of Science in Medicine":

• They can claim 28 'Friends' outside the field or their parent body and who still work.

Calling the group "Friends of Doctors" is far more accurate.

Note: A full count of members of the parent Organisation, "Australian Skeptics" is not possible without a public membership list (4,000 subscribers are claimed to "The Sketpic").

The organisation's own analysis, (494 members, 25-Feb-2012) is:

Of the 494 individuals were a total of 226 (45%) medical doctors (212 Australian, 14 Overseas) and other disciplines (243 Australian, 25 Overseas).

My analysis:

• 502 unique names,
• 1 duplicate record, "Prof Jon Emery"
• 123 with title "Dr"
• 5 non-health related
• 334 with title "Prof" (including A/Prof)
• 4 FoSiM Executive members
• 34 Emeritus or retired
• 165 MBBS, MD, BMedSci, FRACP, FRCP, FANZCA, FRACGP, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Medical Oncology, Psychiatry, Pharmacy/Pharmacology, RN
• 131 remaining:
• 15 in non-health areas
• 41 not "Dr", "Prof" or on the Executive.
• 7 declare or publicly state membership of the parent Organisation, "Australian Skeptics"
• 17 are in Medicine/Medical Science or allied disciplines (Pharmacy, Nursing, paramedic)
• 18 "non medical" vocations [counts not given].
• health/biology related
• 8 non-health related
• Information Technology 
• MSc(Astronomy) BSc(Finance & Economics) 
• Science, eLearning Officer
• legal researcher, solicitor
• science writer/editor/creative director