Bryan E. Bledsoe

D.O. Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO or D.O., or in Australia DO USA) is a medical degree conferred by the 38 osteopathic medical schools in the United States. DO and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees are equivalent: a DO graduate may become licens ...

, FACEP, EMT-P (born 1955), is an emergency medicine physician, paramedic, author and educator. Bledsoe is

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in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the

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. He is also Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at

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. Bledsoe is the author of a textbook for

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education. He has also published many articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and magazines. Bledsoe resides in Texas and Nevada. He has expressed the view that "the safest place in America to suffer sudden cardiac arrest is a casino," since Las Vegas establishments used to over-excited tourists suffering ill-effects – are well supplied with

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s and have watchful staff who can react quickly to incidents. Bledsoe has been critical of the

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training given to D.O. physicians. In a 2004 letter to ''

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'' he asked: "How can the osteopathic medical profession deliberately seek the brightest college graduates to become osteopathic physicians and at the same time, ask those students to believe in and practice modes of therapy that have little or no proved effect?"

Education

Bryan E. Bledsoe graduated from the

University of Texas at Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas. The university was founded in 1895 and was in the Texas A&M University System for several decades until joining the University of Te ...

with a

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degree (BS). He later graduated from medical school at the

University of North Texas The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later."Denton Normal School," ...

with a

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO or D.O., or in Australia DO USA) is a medical degree conferred by the 38 osteopathic medical schools in the United States. DO and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees are equivalent: a DO graduate may become licens ...

degree (DO). He completed his residency in emergency medicine at

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References

External links

List of books by Bledsoe
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bledsoe, Bryan E. American osteopathic physicians Living people Physicians from Nevada American emergency physicians University of North Texas Health Science Center alumni University of Texas at Arlington alumni 1955 births