Testimonials of Membership Value

I set up an office and networked with other physicians. I eventually became politically active in the BCMA Pain Society. Through that association I met Cynthia. She recruited me, and said I should join the BCMA to support and to take the message to a higher level. I have subsequently been involved on national, state and local levels.

Sanford Silverman, MD

BCMA Vice-President

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I originally joined AMA as my introduction to organized medicine. As I started to receive information and publications I decided to join the FMA and BCMA. Initially I didn’t see benefits from the BCMA. I met Aaron and he encouraged me to be more active and asked me to be on the board. I realized that when I made the decision to get more involved, I was looking for a voice. I felt as a physician no one was sticking up for me on the problems that I was facing. 

David Perloff, MD

BCMA Treasurer

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About 1990 the majority of medical residents would join the AMA so that we could have a vision of organizational medicine, i.e. how medicine was run in the USA. We would observe the process and contemplate how we could change things and make them better. After entering practice, the local state and county organized medical associations seemed more important. I thought I could change things. Complaining goes nowhere, but through my personal effort and with colleagues support; we were able to affect some but not all things that I felt needed to be changed.  I worked with the other doctors on promoting the Bill of Rights. We were able to gather together on a local level (grass roots) and then move this to the level to FMA, etc. In short, I got involved in the BCMA to change things.

Aaron Elkin, MD,

BCMA Past-President (2011)

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I joined 32 years ago. You didn’t have a choice. It was part of your development. You would leave medical school and you would join the county medical association. In recent years doctors are “used”, perhaps abused, constantly. They get taken advantage of by hospitals, the government, and even other doctors. The BCMA represents the concerns and is the voice of all Broward County Physicians.

Tony Prieto, MD

BCMA Past-President (2009)

Eight years ago I knew my colleagues and network. I started a practice, a small one. As a female doctor I liked the women physicians’ interest group, I wanted to learn and continue to network and also to understand the politics of the county medical association.

Daniela Botoman, MD

BCMA BOD member

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I like to network. I was in private practice initially and then decided to join the Cleveland Clinic where I met other doctors. I have been very busy this year when I was approached about becoming involved and that was through the gentle nudging of Cynthia, I made a decision to say yes. The BCMA offers information and educational programs on very useful topics and excellent networking opportunities.  

Lyssette Cardona, MD

BCMA Co-Chair Women Physicians Group

I came from a family of doctors (in Michigan). While I knew specialists there in Michigan when I moved here to Broward County I knew no one. I opened a practice in Broward and joined the BCMA to meet people, network and be a part of something larger than my own practice. The BCMA offered me to be a part of an organization of physicians, primary care physicians such as internal medicine, surgeons and other medical specialists.

Shareen Greenbaum, MD