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Thomas Bledsoe, MD, FACP
Thomas Bledsoe, MD, is a general internist and a specialist in
medical ethics at Rhode Island Hospital, where he also serves as
the vice chair of the Rhode
Island Hospital Ethics Committee. He is also a clinical associate
professor of Medicine at Brown Medical School and the interim director
of the center for biomedical ethics at Brown Medical School, where
he teaches medical ethics to residents and medical students. His
particular areas of interest include clinical bioethics and medical
education, informed consent, models of shared decision making and
ethical issues related to end-of-life care.
Bledsoe has been an invited guest speaker and written numerous
articles on the subjects of assessing competency, the physician's
role in end-of-life care, respecting patients' wishes at end-of-life
and other topics in the area of medical ethics.
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