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 Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection, The University of Texas MD Anderson 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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