TMA Bestows Highest Honor To Houston Family Physician

Houston family physician Max C. Butler, MD, has spent nearly 50 years treating patients, but he would maintain that it is the patients who have nurtured him. “The most gratifying part of my life has been my long-standing relationship with my patients,” said the Texas Medical Association’s (TMA’s) 2008 Distinguished Service Award winner. “In some families I have cared for five generations,” said Dr. Butler, who treated his first patient when Dwight Eisenhower was U.S. president.

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Filed under: Primary Care on May 22nd, 2008