Martha Pugh, MD: One of TMA's longest-Serving Members Flourished in Male-Dominated Medicine.

Abstract

After growing up on a South Alabama cattle farm in the 1940s and '50s, Martha Pugh, MD, went on to have a 51-year career in a different male-dominated field: medicine. Often one of few women in the building, whether at medical school or in hospitals, Dr. Pugh - now 82 and retired - found common ground with her male peers and went on to become one of the Texas Medical Association's longest-serving members for 42 years.