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Be Wise — Immunize is a joint initia- tive led by TMA physicians and the TMA Alliance, funded by the TMA Foundation through generous grants from H-E-B and the TMF Health Quality Institute. Since the program began in 2004, more than 235,000 vaccinations have been given to Texas children, adolescents, and adults.
Be Wise — Immunize is a service mark of the Texas Medical Association.
TMA Fall Conference focuses on patient- physician relationship
Join your friends and colleagues in Austin Oct. 18–19 for the many business, edu- cational, and social events scheduled at the 2013 Texas Medical Association Fall Conference at the AT&T Conference Center. The conference will feature updates on what’s happening on important health
care-related issues in Congress, a review of TMA’s success in the 2013 session of the legislature, and a session on TMA’s new Physician Services Organization for Patient Care. Learn from thought leaders and legislators, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas),
who are dedicated to protecting the complex and vital patient-physician relationship. In recent years, increased government overstep has threatened the nature and con- tent of patients’ interactions with their physicians. Some recent laws and proposed legislation infringe on clinical practice and patient-physician relationships, crossing traditional boundaries and intruding into the realm of medical professionalism. It is up to physicians, as well as legislative friends of medicine, to put the patient first and fight to protect the sensitive patient-physician relationship. TMA councils, boards, committees, and sections will meet during the conference.
For more information, log on to
www.texmed.org/fall or contact the TMA Knowl- edge Center at (800) 880-7955 or
knowledge@texmed.org. In addition, you, your families, and your staff can get a flu shot or Tdap (tetanus,
diphtheria, and pertussis) vaccination at the conference. Vaccinations will be admin- istered from 7:30 to 8:30 am on Saturday, Oct. 19.
Costs will be $27 for flu shots, $40 for FluMist, and $80 for Tdap shots. Be sure
to reserve your vaccination when you register for TMA’s Fall Conference. You can register at
www.texmed.org/fall/. The vaccination event is sponsored by TMA’s Committee on Infectious Diseases and TMA’s Be Wise — ImmunizeSM
program.
Bugs, Bones, and Blood exhibit opens this month
A new TMA exhibit — Bugs, Bones, and Blood — opens this month and exam- ines the history of forensic medicine in Texas. The exhibit is in the History of Medicine Gallery on the first floor of the TMA building at 15th and Guadalupe in Austin. Two of the exhibit’s most fascinat- ing displays cover the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963 and the horrific ammonium nitrate explosions of the SS Grandcamp and SS High Flyer in Texas City on April 16, 1947, that killed almost 600 people and leveled more than 1,000 buildings. The exhibit uses images from The
University of Texas Southwestern Medi- cal Center Library Archives to examine responses in the emergency department of Parkland Memorial Hospital when President Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22 and when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963, as reported in the January 1964 issue of the Texas State Journal of Medicine (now Texas Medicine). The Texas City disaster portion of the exhibit includes images and items
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