Stories with related Professional Interests

Texas BookShare: The program puts a novel twist on promoting healthy living to youth - 02/14/2024

Since 2021, BookShare has aimed to place big ideas into little hands across Texas by providing funding for books and promoting community collaboration along the way. Today the program has grown to encompass seven counties across Texas and has given away more than 5,000 health-related books to children in Texas.


All You Need to Do Is RSVP: TMA Alliance Leader's Open Invitation - 10/26/2023

TMA Alliance Leader Jenny Shepherd extends an open invitation to join medical advocacy.


International Medical Graduate Outstanding Physician Award - 06/29/2023

Do you know any physicians who graduated from medical school outside of the United States and have provided outstanding service within their community? Nominate them for the Texas Medical Association International Medical Graduate Section’s inaugural IMG Section Outstanding Physician Award. 


Smith County Alliance Launches BookShare Program to Promote Healthy Living to Underserved - 06/26/2023

The Texas BookShare program is now in eight Lone Star State counties and has given away more than 2,000 health-related books to children across the state.


Personal Connections: TMAA President-Elect Strengthens Alliance Chapter Ties - 05/03/2023

TMAA President-Elect Elizabeth Vanexan aims to build closer relationships among alliance chapters.


Miles of Mentorship: Encouraging Medical Careers Early in Students' Education - 05/01/2023

Physicians, medical schools, medical students partner with their communities to encourage medical careers early in students’ education.


Texas House Recognizes TMA Alliance on First Tuesdays’ 20th Anniversary - 05/01/2023

 Texas House Recognizes TMA Alliance on First Tuesdays’ 20th Anniversary 


Community Connections: TMA’s Council on Health Promotion Helps Physicians Boost Hometown Health - 04/03/2023

The Texas Medical Association's Council on Health Promotion oversees the organization's outreach programs and helps develop new ones. These programs are used by county medical societies, alliance chapters, medical student groups, and medical practices to improve community health.


In Times of Need: How PBF Assists Physicians Financially and Emotionally - 12/12/2022

The Physicians Benevolent Fund assists physicians financially and emotionally.


Why the Physicians Benevolent Fund Is Important: A Conversation With TMA Vice Speaker John Flores, MD - 11/08/2022

WHEN PHYSICIANS AND their families encounter personal hardship – such as a widow left with a family to raise following her physician husband’s death, or an elderly couple struggling to make ends meet as their savings dwindle following a dementia diagnosis – the Texas Medical Association’s Physicians Benevolent Fund (PBF) is here to help.


Walk With a Doc Texas Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary - 10/04/2022

Many Walk With A Doc walks relaunch after a long hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Why the Physicians Benevolent Fund Is Important: A Conversation - 07/11/2022

When physicians and their families encounter personal hardship – such as a widow left with a family to raise following her physician husband’s death, or an elderly couple struggling to make ends meets as their savings dwindle following a dementia diagnosis – the Texas Medical Association’s Physicians Benevolent Fund (PBF) is here to help.


Help a Physician in Need With a Referral to The Physicians Benevolent Fund - 06/07/2022

It’s often said that talk is cheap. In the case of The Physicians Benevolent Fund (PBF), the payoff for a little talk could be huge for a colleague or friend in need. By sharing information about PBF or by referring someone to the Texas Medical Association, you could give a friend or colleague a much-needed hand up.


Your Patients’ Health Depends on Your Overall Well-Being - 05/16/2022

Taking care of your patients is obviously your first priority. But while you’re working to improve the lives of people in your community, don’t forget to take care of yourself, too. After all, you can’t treat patients effectively if you’re not treating yourself well.


Martha Pugh, MD: One of TMA’s longest-Serving Members Flourished in Male-Dominated Medicine - 12/01/2021

After growing up on a South Alabama cattle farm in the 1940s and ’50s, Martha Pugh, MD, went on to have a 51-year career in a different male-dominated field: medicine. Often one of few women in the building, whether at medical school or in hospitals, Dr. Pugh – now 82 and retired – found common ground with her male peers and went on to become one of the Texas Medical Association’s longest-serving members for 42 years.


Pair TMA Bike Helmets With Local Holiday Gift Giveaways - 11/08/2021

When kids receive a set of wheels – a bike, that is – from a local holiday gift giveaway, the Texas Medical Association’s Hard Hats for Little Heads is here to help you provide the helmet. As the season of giving approaches, pairing helmets with bikes given through local toy distributions is an easy way to spread joy and safety to local children.  


Nominate Outstanding Science Teachers for TMA Awards - 11/08/2021

Do you know a science teacher who brings the subject to life, perhaps inspiring students to pursue a related career, even in medicine? If so, nominate him or her for the Texas Medical Association’s Ernest and Sarah Butler Awards for Excellence in Science Teaching.


Commentary: I'm a Better Physician 'Thanks' to Cancer - 10/28/2021

The last thing a nonsmoking asymptomatic female physician expects during her usual hourly aerobic exercise is a phone call from her internist about a “spiculated lung nodule.” There was no need for the rest of the radiologist’s sentence: “suspicious for malignancy.”


No Escape: COVID-19 Continues to Exacerbate Physician Burnout - 09/17/2021

The malaise in physician practice long known as burnout – a term doctors increasingly balk at – has been exacerbated by the pandemic, as an extensive survey by the Physicians Foundation recently showed. It’s created its own stressors and made existing ones worse.


Physicians Benevolent Fund Helps Physicians, Families - 03/08/2021

When Texas physicians and their families have needed support because of poverty, infirmity, disability, accident, or other adversity, the TMA Physicians Benevolent Fund has stepped in to help for the past 53 years.


When the Fight Becomes Personal: Physicians Share Their Stories of Contracting COVID-19 - 02/01/2021

It’s no surprise that many physicians were among the more than 1.3 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in Texas last year. Texas Medicine spoke with three Texas physicians who contracted COVID-19 to learn how the disease affected them physically and impacted their outlook as caregivers.


Farewell Lou Goodman (1948-2020) - 09/02/2020

Louis J. Goodman, PhD, former TMA executive vice president and CEO of 22 years, passed away on Friday, July 31. He was 71.


Desegregating Medicine: Edith Irby Jones, MD, Broke Barriers in All-White Medical Schools in the South - 03/31/2020

 Houston internist Edith Irby Jones, MD, broke barriers in all-white medical schools in the South and in her hometown of Houston. She died at age 91.


Is Pediatric Development on Your Mind? Check Out This Conference - 03/09/2020

If you are interested in learning some strategies for promoting pediatric brain development in children, register for the 2020 Pediatric Brain Health Summit scheduled for March 23-24 in Austin.


Q&A: Stethoscopes and Telescopes - 02/21/2020

Ever since he was a boy, Temple family physician John Manning, MD, has been fascinated by space. Now, Dr. Manning is also an amateur photographer. About 10 years ago, he merged his interests in photography and space into his latest obsession: astrophotography.