Dr. Thomas A Preston M.D.
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
1327 Oakview Columbus OH, 43235About
Dr. Thomas Preston is a critical care surgeon practicing in Columbus, OH. Dr. Preston specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Preston has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Education and Training
Univ of Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1962
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The artificial heart and the public purse.
- Public policy and informed consent.
- Testing new technologies.
- Choosing not to choose.
- Baby Fae: the ethics of medical adventurism.
- Killing pain, ending life.
- Truth and truthfulness.
- Physician involvement in life-ending practices.
- 'Baby Fae'--what does she mean to us?
- Characteristics of persons approving of physician-assisted death.
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