Lois DeBakey, along with her sister, Selma, worked to encourage physicians to avoid complicated medical jargon. The DeBakey sisters traveled around the world giving presentations to help doctors be more precise and clear when speaking with patients. In 1962 the DeBakey sisters created and taught the first communication course approved for a medical school curriculum at Tulane University School of Medicine and in 1968 they moved to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where Lois DeBakey worked as a Professor of Scientific Communication. The DeBakey sisters shared an office in the Texas Medical Center, just down the hall from their brother Michael's office.
