Bexar County Medical Society

did you know the bexar county medical society (bcms) plans and organizes health care in san antonio? the medical society is behind most of san antonio's iconic medical institutions: the south texas medical center, the ut health science center, the cancer therapy and research center, the south texas blood and tissue center, and others. the medical society is the place where doctors meet to plan and organize health care. should a natural disaster, such as an epidemic or the spread of a virus like zika or ebola, arise, medical society doctors would be called upon to organize how the situation would be handled. they would answer questions like "i just visited a friend who is affected by the zika virus. what should i do?" also, the medical society works with the texas medical association to give away helmets to less fortunate children, with the bcms alliance to immunize children, with its own foundation to raise money for scholarships to encourage san antonio students to enter the field of