Minnesota Psychiatry in the Mid-to-Late Twentieth Century Oral History Project: Interview with Richard Magraw, M.D.

Titles: Minnesota Psychiatry in the Mid-to-Late Twentieth Century Oral History Project: Interview with Richard Magraw, M.D. (Supplied title)

Description: Dr. Magraw was a tournament bridge player at age 12, a high school graduate at age 16, and entered medical school at age 19. In addition to his teaching career at the University of Minnesota, he was dean at two medical schools, was deputy assistant Secretary of Health of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, then chief of psychiatry at the Minneapolis VA hospital late in his career. He was a superb teacher, with boards in internal medicine as well as psychiatry. Magraw provides a review of his training and career, with very sensitive observations on a physician's practice and responsibility to patients.

Dates

• 05/22/2009 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Cline, Dr. David
• interviewee: Magraw, Dr. Richard M.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 124
• Accession Number: AV2011.14.16

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota Psychiatry in the Mid-to-Late Twentieth Century Oral History Project' <OH 124>

Quantity: 16 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: text

Subjects

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