Statement of Purpose

The objects of the Polk County Medical Association shall be the cultivation and advancement of the medical sciences, the promotion of public health, the enactment and enforcement of just medical laws, the promotion of friendly communion among physicians and the guarding and fostering of their mutual interests, the enlightenment and direction of public opinion in regard to the great problems of medicine, so that the profession shall become more capable and honorable within itself and more useful to the public in the prevention and cure of disease and in prolonging human life; to bring into one organization every reputable physician in Polk County, Florida, so that by intelligent unity and harmony in every phase of their labor they may make effective the opinion of the medical profession in all scientific, legislative, public health, social and material affairs; and with other county societies, to form the Florida Medical Association, and through it, with other State Associations, to form and maintain the American Medical Association.