50-Year Club: Member Essay Project

In February 2007, TMA asked 50-Year Club members to write essays about their personal insights into the medical profession. 

Our 50-Year Club members' collective wisdom and knowledge are valuable assets to the association. These essays manifest physicians' trusted leadership role within their communities and the health care team. 

The links below will direct you to the essays as they are printed in Texas Medicine magazine on a recurring basis. We hope you enjoy!

  • Sixty Years of Cardiovascular Surgery , by Denton Cooley, MD
  • " Medicare Changed It All ," by Harold R. High, MD 
  • Perseverance and Reward , by Masashi Kawasaki, MD
  • " You Just Have to Try ," by Mavis P. Kelsey Sr., MD
  • " Still the Greatest Profession ," by Tom Arnold, MD
  • " I Did What Had to Be Done ," by George G. Meyer, MD
  • The Changing Image of Radiology , by Jack D. Ramsey, MD
  • Ophthalmology: The Impossible Becomes Routine , by John J. Alpar, MD
  • Those Were the Days , by George H. Brandau, MD
  • The Greatest Generation?  by Elgin W. Ware Jr., MD
  • Art in the Practice of Medicine , by L. Rodney Rodgers, MD
  • I Remember When , by Herbert L. Fred, MD
  • This Is the Greatest Generation , by John D. Bonnet, MD

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Last Updated On

July 19, 2023

Originally Published On

March 23, 2010

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