RE: Responsibilities we seem to avoid
The good Doctor didn't make an address or anything along those lines.
He just offered observations on a few of the points Tony made, such as how to deal with questions to which the AVP doesn't know the answer. Nothing earth shaking, and actually just common sense - like, don't blow smoke up any skirts, so to speak, if you don't know the answer. Tell the questioner you don't know but you'll get the answer.
Stuff like that.
No real surprises, except when the discussion got 'round to the safety issues - seems there is an effort underway to unearth and make available data about safety incidents and accidents, to some extent. Not settlements or money, but the particulars of what happened and how it happened, with a view toward making clubs more aware of the number and variety of incidents and accidents that take place, so the clubs can take a look at the way they do business and perhaps make change where needed.