In addition to seeking to provide quality medical and health care, the Semmes-Murphey Clinic makes social contributions through its physicians and other health professionals. They have a commitment to the teaching of student physicians, thus transmitting their special knowledge to others for the purpose of the continuity of medicine.
Further, in relation to their duties as teaching physicians and other health professionals, they provide supervision for the medical care of indigent patients and have adopted a practicing philosophy of providing medical care to all who come to their offices without respect to socio-economic class. A special effort is made to see patients in terms of their urgency and expectations.
In essence, the philosophy of the Semmes-Murphey Clinic focuses upon the value of medicine and health care as a major contributing factor to the well-being of society.
