Editor's Note: For background and clarity, Letters to the Editor received on this topic that were printed in previous issues of the Keystoner will be posted along with the two that were published in the April 2011 issue.
Editor:
Regarding Dr. Diecidue’s Letter to the Editor in the November/December 2010 Keystoner, I would like to state unequivocally that it is absolutely a false statement that "POA’s votes at the AOA House of Delegates were indeed determined by polling the delegates on every question..." All delegates were NOT polled on the ABO issue, (I and Dr. Bennett being 2), and when asked why he did not poll all the delegates, the then POA president stated, "The POA board has already decided we are in favor of this." I have no doubt that Dr. Diecidue was absolutely polled on this issue. The backlash from the lack of a vote given to some delegates, who felt their time was not well served as a POA representative, on an issue that had already been decided on by the POA board, is what created the formation of the Ad Hoc AOA Voting Committee in the first place. It is important that a POA delegate be advised and understand their role, if they have one at all, as a representative of POA at the AOA House of Delegates. Otherwise these meetings can and should just be attended by state association presidents.
David R. McPhillips, O.D., F.A.A.O.
Past President Pennsylvania Optometric Association
Horsham
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