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Letter: James Crowley, M.D.: In memory of a true Rhode Island medical hero - The Providence Journal

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Jul 3, 2019 at 6:20 PM Jul 3, 2019 at 6:20 PM

Dr. Tom Bennett was memorialized last week. His death was truly a great loss to his family and the many close friends who loved him.

My most vivid memory of Dr. Bennett is his fearless care of the first AIDS patients in Rhode Island in the early and mid-1980s, some of whom he knew personally. Back then it was a fearful plague, and the doctors, nurses, other health-care workers and the general public were afraid that they would contract the disease by even casual contact with the unfortunate patients. The fear was so great that many shirked from their duty to care for them.

Dr. Bennett never did. He took care of them even though back then there was no primary treatment or research funding for treating AIDS and Dr. Bennett was faced with caring for patients with a multitude of complications with no hope of cure. He never asked for a fee for his professional services to AIDS patients. Indeed, if they had absolutely nowhere else to go, Dr. Bennett would invite them to stay in his home to rest until he personally drove them to hospice care. He was a true Rhode Island medical hero.

All of us who knew him are better persons for it. I hope those reading this, and hearing of Dr. Bennett’s heroism for the first time, will be better people, too, for knowing of him and what he did.

James Crowley, M.D.

Riverside

The writer is a past president of the Rhode Island Medical Society.



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