Schiavo Was Blind (Frist was dumb!)

[BeyondThePale]

http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=1100


Breaking: Schiavo Was Blind, Frist’s Fraudulent Diagnosis

Freshly-released autopsy results reveal that Terri Shiavo was blind:

Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin concluded that…her brain was about half of normal size when she died. …

Thogmartin says her brain was “profoundly atrophied” – and that the damage was “irreversable.” He also says, “The vision centers of her brain were dead” – meaning she was blind.

Which makes Dr. Frist’s expert “diagnosis” all the more outrageous:

Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), a renowned heart surgeon before becoming Senate majority leader, went to the floor late Thursday night for the second time in 12 hours to argue that Florida doctors had erred in saying Terri Schiavo is in a “persistent vegetative state.”

“I question it based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office,” he said in a lengthy speech in which he quoted medical texts and standards. “She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli.”





http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=1100

[RPM]

1. hahahahah

frist is so stupid.

[rkc3]

8. Send him photos of hemorrhoids - see if he can diagnose them for you.

If I had them, I'd be emailing photos to his office until the Secret Service showed up.

Self-righteous prick. I hope someone calls him on this or there will be no justice in this country.

[dogday]

2. Frist is just as inept a Doctor as he is a Politician....

[Ivote]

3. To Much VIAGRA for Frist to see the truth

n/t
:bounce:

[99Pancakes]

4. Wow

Don't that make them thar Repugs look reel edge-a-macated?

[w13rd0]

5. We should all send...

...Frist videotapes of us acting like Republican asshats, and in accompanying letter, ask him to give us his patented "video diagnosis"...

[cthrumatrix]

6. let's watch Frist ....he's probably trying to hide from any camera's

[Shoeempress]

9. Hope he doesn't go shoe shopping, can't hide there

[JDPriestly]

7. Just like the right-wing fanatics that wanted to keep her

soul caged in her shell of a body forever. They are all blind.

[htuttle]

10. According to my diagnosis, Frist is suffering from an ingrown head

Must be mighty dark in there.

[politicaholic]

11. YES! The repukes should run THAT jerk off in '08...

Dr. Dean vs. Dr. Frist...it sounds like quite a face(lift)-off.

[RalphReedsWreckedEm]

12. Didn't he violate Medical Ethics? Can he be sanctioned?

How can a doctor "diagnose" someone over the TV? Isn't that against any code of Medical Ethics, so much so that his license to practice could be jeopordized? Especially when he's WRONG?

Just wondering....Seems like it to me.

[nickgutierrez]

15. "Ethics? AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"You're dealin' with the Republican Party! We invented ethics, and we reinvent them every single day!"

These people don't give a crap about ethics. They don't even care about truth. The only thing they care about is keeping their base in a frenzy.

Welcome to DU.

[izzie]

13. That was so creepy. It just makes me want to yell at someone

My mother's mind went in 1990 and to think we could still have that poor women living on tubes in the back room make me ill. We let her die a natural death as she wished.

[Ysolde]

14. So has anybody seen this report on the MSM?

I would REALLY like the idiots in the media that kept reporting the hogwash about Shiavo to blast this as far and wide as they did before she died. Michael Shiavo needs to get reparations from Frist, et al (and especially from Ms. Shiavo's parents). And, someone, anyone needs to keep all of this and blast it back at Frist when he next wants to run for anything!

[BeyondThePale]

17. CNN reports she was blind, but

nothing about Dr. Frist, medicine man

[NJmaverick]

16. REMEMBER THE VIDEO! SHOWING HER EYES FOLLOWING

Things. Shows you it was a deceptive creation that created lies through careful editing! The right is down right evil and this episode proves it!

[napi21]

18. I did hear that the camera was on for hours, and tape was edited

"to show activity". The story at the time was that there were hours of tape showing her just lying there. When you edit tape, you can make it show almost anything you want!

[MisterP]

25. by Randall Terry, no less!

he also edits fetus (and abortion!!!) videos

[Atman]

22. It would have been just as easy for the finger to follow her random eyes

Sheesh.

The worst part of all this?

We're still talking about it.

[ComerPerro]

27. Exactly

[louis-t]

23. Frist says he viewed the (carefully edited) 15 second clip

for over an hour? That's like diagnosing a broken leg by examining someone's arm. My diagnosis: Frist is a lousy doctor and a worse politician.

[Dudley_DUright]

19. I wish Frist was dumb (as in deaf, dumb and blind)

so we would not have to listen to the drivel that comes out of his mouth on a regular basis. He should have his medical license revoked on the grounds of diminished mental capacity.

[AFSCME girl]

20. Frist is an idiot!!

a stupid, cat-killing idiot! :grr:

[deadparrot]

21. Shouldn't Frist's medical license be taken? nt

[BeyondThePale]

24. Her brain weighed 615 grams,

roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain," he said. "This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/15/AR2005061500512_2.html

[ComerPerro]

26. Two things: One, when has the right ever been discouraged by science?

Some of them still believe the literal account of Noah's flood as it appears in the Bible. Many believe in a literal 6-day creation.

Second, they will just say Frist didn't lie.
He said "it appears". So they can just argue that it was his perception and opinion based on observation, not a deliberate lie (even though that seems to be the case here).

[Old and In the Way]

28. Reminds me of the people who vote Republican.

They appear to be awake, but in reality they are dumb and blind.