Doctor's Day Luncheon


In Tarrant County, we are fortunate to be surrounded by excellent physicians who provide wonderful care for patients, contribute to the community, and participate in leading us toward advances in Medicine. Many of them work tirelessly on the behalf of legislation that protects the physician-patient relationship. In honor of that, the Medical Society hosts a free luncheon for all Tarrant County physicians in March to celebrate Doctors’ Day.

“The very first Doctors’ Day in 1933 consisted of a few doctors’ wives putting together a luncheon for the local physicians in Winder, Georgia, northeast of Atlanta. On March 30, 1958, the "Resolution Commemorating Doctors' Day" was adopted by the United States House of Representatives. In 1990, legislation was introduced in the House and Senate to establish a national Doctors’ Day. Following overwhelming approval by both houses of Congress, on October 30, 1990, President George Bush designating March 30th as "National Doctors’ Day.’"

 

For more information, please contact Melody Briggs at mbriggs@tcms.org.