Frist's Flippity-Fucking-Flop

From today's AP:

Frist, R-Tenn., said he never made his own diagnosis... "I raised the question, 'Is she in a persistent vegetative state or not?' I never made the diagnosis, never said that she was not."

From the Washington Post, 3/19/05:

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."

His comments raised eyebrows in medical and political circles alike. It is not every day that a high-profile physician relies on family videotapes to challenge the diagnosis of doctors who examined a severely brain-damaged patient in person.

What a bunch of BS.