title: Don't Mess With TMA.
abstract: Despite a state budget crisis and attacks by special interests, TMA won passage of numerous laws benefiting patients and physicians in the 2011 Texas legislative session. They included stopping nonphysicians' scope-of-practice expansion, reforming the Texas Medical Board, and protecting physicians who work for hospitals.
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ortolon
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013781:Texas