Peter Carroll and David Tecosky
Dr . Peter Carroll and Dr . David Tecosky Honored with PDA Public Service Award
Dr . Judith McFadden presented the PDA Public Service Award to Dr . Peter Carroll and Dr . David Tecosky on April 9 during the Second Meeting of the House of Delegates .
Our first encounter with adversarial and public picketing in Philadelphia occurred during October 2005 , at the ADA ’ s Annual Meeting . On the first day of the meeting word quickly spread among the members of the Committee on Local Arrangements that there was a group gathering around the west entrance to the convention center . Police , Philadelphia ’ s finest , were everywhere . Their car lights were flashing furiously and guns were in evidence . The small band of picketers , maybe about 12 to 15 individuals , ( honestly , a rather motley group ) were quietly preparing their placard signs and body sandwich boards which showed terrible illustrations about what amalgam had done to the sad individuals pictured . Pete Carroll , the vice chairman of the Committee on Local Arrangements , was standing next to me right outside the door of the center . We had been given strict orders by the American Dental Association not to speak with or anyway interact with any group that might show up to use the meeting as a public forum for its grievances . I whispered to Pete and asked what he thought . I think he said something like , “ It ’ s a weekday ; I wonder what they do for a living ?”
Fast forward to 2008 and they ’ re back , the motley crew , and they have found a way to harass the citizens of Philadelphia and seriously compromise access to care especially for children and the underserved . They have gotten to city council to try and convince the medical and dental geniuses on that group to pass a resolution to ban amalgam from within the city limits .
When I learned that Pete and David
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