2011 ANNUAL REPORT


Winning the good fight TMA succeeds in 2011


Physician meetings with lawmakers, like this one with state Rep. John Zerwas, MD, center, during a First Tuesdays at the Capitol event, helped TMA score major victories for physicians and patients in 2011.


TMA continued to grow; its member- ship at year’s end totaled 45,548.


When 2011 began, Texas Medical Association physician leaders and staff knew they faced long and difficult battles with a rogues’ gallery of the usual suspects. They knew they would fight those battles in the capitols in Austin and Washington, D.C., in the offices of state and federal regulators, and in the corporate headquarters of the insurance companies. There were those who pushed a petty personal agenda to weaken the Texas Medi- cal Board (TMB), thus jeopardizing the public’s faith in physicians; hospitals that


June 2012 TEXAS MEDICINE 23


JIM LINCOLN


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