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  • Incoming Senate Majority Leader Frist Helps Victims in Florida Crash

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    Thanks to Drudge for the link.


    Sen. Frist Helps Victims in Florida Crash
    Reuters
    Thursday, January 2, 2003; 8:23 AM



    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Incoming Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist won praise on Thursday for using his skills as a medical doctor to help the victims of a fatal automobile accident on Florida's Alligator Alley on New Year's Day.

    Capt. Ken Kronheim of the Broward County Fire and Rescue Department said Frist, a second-term Tennessee Republican, stopped to help six people ejected from their Isuzu sport utility vehicle when it rolled over after a tire blew out.

    "He was instrumental in helping us sort out the critical patients," Kronheim told CNN.

    Frist, named to succeed Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi to lead the Republican majority in the Senate, is a trained surgeon. He was traveling with his sons to a family vacation in Fort Lauderdale at the time of the accident.

    Kronheim said one of the six passengers in the Isuzu, a 10-year-old girl, was killed in the accident on Wednesday.

    Frist's office issued a statement saying his heart went out to the family involved in the crash. "As a doctor, my first instincts are to help and I was privileged to offer my assistance today at the scene of this horrible accident."

    "He helped tremendously," Tammy Riddle, another Broward County emergency technician who responded to the scene, told ABC's "Good Morning America."

    Capt. Jeffrey Andrews said he worked side by side with Frist to help one of the victims resume breathing, but did not recognize him until later.

    In 1998, Frist used his medical skills to help the victims of a shooting at the U.S. Capitol.

    Given the tendency of some people on this board to throw mud at Republicans every chance they get, I thought I'd give them an opportunity to explain what part of Frist's depraved, psychotic nature led him to do this.

    No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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    Democrats are even now looking for a malpractice case against Frist. No good deed deserves to go unpunished.
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    • #3
      Hmmmm...kill a few cats and you get 70+ posts...save a few humans and you get...
      No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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      • #4
        I believe this is the second thread about this subject...

        I'm not a complete idiot: some parts are still missing.

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        • #5
          I just found the first one, using the search feature -- considering the title, it's no wonder I missed it.

          I see jimmytrick was wearing his tin foil hat again.
          No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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          • #6
            Bravo for him, let's hope his public policy is as humane as his private policy...
            "Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
            "...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
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            • #7
              If he did help those people, I applaud him. It still doesn't change the fact that he's basically the voice for pharmaceutical companies. He saved people? Good, I'll give him a medal. Does it mean he's going to represent the interest of the American people instead of the pharmaceutical industry? pfffttt
              To us, it is the BEAST.

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              • #8
                This deserves a bump.
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                • #9
                  As I said in the other thread, it reminds me of "The Contender". I'm obviously not paranoid enough to think the whole thing was staged, it's just kinda eerie.

                  Bravo to Dr. Frist. He is a true hero. Senator Frist, however, is lacking.
                  "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
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                  • #10
                    I find it funny that any Doctor opposed to the 'Patient's Bill of Rights' and Malpractice claims are representing the interests of the pharmaceutical industry. I guess that means EVERY doctor represents that industry, since none of them like it (witness the strike of surgeons in West Virginia and the near-strike in Pennsylvania).
                    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                    - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                    • #11
                      Its just the typical way liberals attack anyone who disagrees with them -- they're either evil or stupid.
                      No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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                      • #12
                        Bah... that whole doctors strike is going to end up helping out health insurance companies, not doctors, not patients. The average consumer is going to end up taking the cost. On MSNBC, they did a short report about this situation. The insurance companies raise their rates to make up for their own investment losses. About 25% of their profits are invested in stocks. that's smart...

                        Wake up Imran, Frist is against the production of generic prescription drugs that would allow for lower prices for consumers. He is supporting the Bush legislation that benefits insurance companies. This man is a classic Republican... sticking up for his corporate constituents.

                        with Frist... I'd almost rather have that racist bast4rd Lott in there. At least he's honest about his moral bankrupcy.
                        To us, it is the BEAST.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by The Mad Monk
                          Its just the typical way liberals attack anyone who disagrees with them -- they're either evil or stupid.
                          or both ...

                          although in most cases, I'd replace stupid with misguided...
                          To us, it is the BEAST.

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                          • #14
                            Well, the guy is probably a good person.

                            Definitely not someone I want to see passing laws, though - even worse, he's a close ally of Bush, or so I hear
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                            • #15
                              Wake up Imran, Frist is against the production of generic prescription drugs that would allow for lower prices for consumers.


                              So are a lot of intelligent people, of which you are not. Generic prescription drugs would just put pharmacutical companies out of business, and then WHO would make the AIDS cure? Who would cure Alzheimer's? Sorry, but we ain't gonna let all medical technology stop because you feel it benefits the people that make the medicines .
                              “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                              - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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