Walter Franklin Baile, MD, Oral History Interview, August 23, 2016
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background; educational experience; professional path
- History of psychiatry; the value of psychiatry to medicine
- Overview of communications in medicine; communications issues for oncology patients
- Sociodrama and psychodrama as teaching techniques in medical communications
- Psychiatry at MD Anderson
Interview Chapters
Chapter 01: A Modest Middle Class Upbringing that Stressed Education
Chapter 02: Early Education and a Transformational Experience in Italy
Chapter 03: Some Background on Psychiatry and a Fellowship
Chapter 05: Chronic Pain, Working with Cancer Patients, and a Digression on Photography
Identifier
BaileWF_01_20160822
Publication Date
8-23-2016
Publisher
The Historical Resources Center, Research Medical Library, The University of Texas Cancer Center
City
Houston, Texas
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Topics Covered
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas System. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Baile, Walter F. MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Walter Franklin Baile, MD, Oral History Interview, August 23, 2016" (2016). Interview Sessions. 67.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/67
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About the Interview
About the Interview Subject
Dr. Walter Franklin Baile [b. 2 June 1944, Jersey City, New Jersey] was recruited to MD Anderson in 1994 as a Professor in the Department of Neuro-Oncology where he also served as Chief of the Psychiatry Section. When he retired in 2016 he was a Professor in the Department of Behavioral Science and a practicing psychiatrist with a dual appointment in the Department of Psychiatry. He also served as founding Director of the Interpersonal Communication and Relationship Enhancement (I*CARE) program in the Department of Faculty and Academic Development.
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