Frist Medical License Renewal Questioned (LOL he lied to them

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Frist-Medical-License.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
ugust 29, 2006
Frist Medical License Renewal Questioned
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 5:30 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist acknowledged Tuesday that he may not have met all the requirements needed to keep his medical license active -- even though he gave paperwork to Tennessee officials indicating that he had.

The state of Tennessee requires its licensed physicians to complete 40 hours of continuing medical education every two years. Frist, a heart-lung surgeon who is considering a 2008 presidential run, submitted a license renewal with the Tennessee Health Department stating he has fulfilled that requirement.

Responding Tuesday to repeated requests from The Associated Press, a Frist spokesman said the Republican senator may not have done his continuing education after all, and had contacted the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners to see if corrective steps were necessary.

..more at link..

[tallahasseedem]

1. Does it ever end...

with these assholes? My gosh.

[Horse with no Name]

2. Of course

When it is a Republican that lies...it is always a mistake or an oversight...just like when they misspeak.
The MSM allows them to get away with this shit time after time after time after....ad infinitum.

[Atman]

3. AAARRRRGHHHH!! I HATE THESE FUCKERS!

My wife is an APRN, and also has to take a certain number of hours of continuing ed to maintain her license. This isn't something one "forgets" or "overlooks." It is the basis for maintaining your very license to practice. Frist is a lying sack of liquid, gooey, corn-filled SHIT!

[appilette]

11. AAARRRRGHHHH!! I HATE THESE FUCKERS!

Well done.  As speaking of one Patent who is discussing life
with annother,  "when was the time that your Doctor
introduced you to his Wife.?"

My current has no Idea how to handle an Iron.  And doesn't
even remember to ask me' if I might like to compare with any
of the other Doctors with who(m) I have been invloved.

I expect that the answer (albeit a bit vague) to this
Conumdrum is still pasted up on the Surgery Wall.  Even today.

It might be silly of me' to say so but I do not think that
they are doing much talking amongst themselves either.

I should have realised after going in, one day for an Electric
Test.   And being told persistantly by the 'Customer Handler'
that the Equipment, "runs on batteries."

If I had'nt my wits about me' I am sure that I would have come
away from the experience thinking that that Nurse fancies
herself as a Policeman.  A pity really because she's not.

[donco6]

18. Don't you have to sign the form,

basically swearing that you've told the truth? I seem to recall something like that . . .

Not that it matters to these fuckers.

[ixion]

4. gee, does video diagnosis count?

he could count an hour for that. :evilgrin:

[spindrifter]

5. Maybe someone from TN will

file a complaint about this serious omission. It is one thing to be short on CME hours. It is a totally different thing to misrepresent compliance, if that is indeed what happened.

http://www2.state.tn.us/health/Downloads/index.htm#inv

[Jackpine Radical]

10. That is indeed what happened.

He signed a form specifically certifying that he had completed the hours as required.

[Ignacio Upton]

6. I'm thinking of Facebooking his son Jonathan

if he allows me onto his friends list, then I'm sending him a copy of this article.:evilgrin:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. translation

''Dr. Frist regularly speaks with physicians on the cutting edge of medical research, reads numerous medical journal articles and attends medical meetings,'' Lehigh said.


He golfs with his colleagues, has a subscription to a couple of journals, and meets regularly with the people who run the family business (hospitals)

[knitter4democracy]

33. That's about right.

I wonder if he even reads New England Journal--it's obviously left-leaning. ;)

[Beetwasher]

8. Some Of These Guys Really Are Dumber Than Shit

And Frist is a Dr.??? Amazing.

How in the world did he think he could get away w/ this, or how could he even THINK of taking the chance???? I mean, he's a fucking politician, didn't he realize how this would look and that people might look into this? Didn't he realize he was running for reelection? WTF was he thinking? Dumber than a sack of shit (my apologies to sacks of shit everywhere).

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Frist is a Pubby. Rules are for the Little People.

My licensing board would kick my ass into orbit if I got caught falsifying a report on my continuing ed.

[mtnester]

12. You do this as an EMT or Paramedic in Ohio

automatically go on probation, cannot practice for up two 2 years, you have to take the classes and remedial classes, and THEN a board decides if you can be renewed. Many times, you have to repeat paramedic or EMT school. AND, if you so much as get a traffic ticket, it can count against you. You name and your offense is published with the Dept. of Public Safety, and sent out in a newsletter with your offense, and your punishment and remediation course, if any, to every fire department and ambulance service emergency room in the state of Ohio for everyone to see.

A doctor who does this ought to at least fall under the same penalty for records falsification in order to renew a license.

[Tesha]

22. Doctors have a better union. (NT)

[babylonsister]

13. Nom! Can we fire his ass yet? nt

[rzemanfl]

14. My fucking vocabulary is too fucking miniscule and shitty to even

begin to say what I need to about this rich, crooked, motherfucking, shitheaded, pudpounding, asshat bastard who is in the Senate mostly to get the Estate Tax repealed for his godamned family of evil scumsucking vipers.

[TomInTib]

17. That wasn't too bad.

Concise counts, too.

[JoFerret]

31. Stop holding back on how you really feel

...you dont want to get twisted knicker syndrome.

[Kutjara]

15. So not only is he a liar..

...he also couldn't spare 40 hours over two years to keep his skills honed? That's about twenty minutes per week. I don't think I'd want to be in the care of a heart surgeon who spent less than 20 minutes per week keeping himself current.

[MidwestTransplant]

16. I figured he answered the question about not torturing cats untruthfully.

[truthisfreedom]

19. "may not have done his continuing education after all"...such weasel words

lies to the last.

[gratuitous]

20. My first thought is "Ah, let it go"

Then I remember how the Republicans, frustrated that they couldn't get a majority vote in the Senate on the articles of impeachment against Clinton (let alone the two-thirds vote they needed for removal from office), went and got his bar ticket pulled to practice before the Supreme Court. Now, Clinton is no longer practicing as an attorney, and isn't going to be doing any oral arguments before the Supremes (a highly specialized field), but the symbolic nature of getting his ticket pulled made all the wasted effort on his impeachment worth it in some circles.

Getting Frist's medical license suspended or revoked would be a case of turn and turn about, and turn about is fair play. Or at least, it used to be before the Republicans seized power. There's probably some obscure subparagraph in the USA PATRIOT Act that's negated that.

Suspension of his license might also cause Frist to have to resign as an officer in some of his corporate interests, should one of them be a medical corporation that requires its officers to be currently licensed physicians. That would be giggle-worthy for sure.

[Gin]

21. wonder if "tele-diagnosing" counts?

g

[NNguyenMD]

23. that guy must set foot in the OR at most, a couple of times a year

I wouldn't trust him to do cardiothoracic surgery on the gameboard "OPERATION" he'd probably screw it up.

He's probably an outdatted has been when it comes to medicine in general much less something as thoroughly comlicated as cardiothoracic surgery. If you don't do lots of surgeries, you have a tendency to kind of suck in that field, and I imagine that this is the case with Catkiller Frist.

[sofa king]

24. What, his diagnosis of Terri Schiavo doesnt count?

[MaineDem]

25. Having first hand knowledge of licensing boards...

I would expect the TN Board would suspend his license at the very least. Let me restate that, they should hold a hearing, and THEN suspend his license. They could also apply criminal charges, I believe, for falsifying the renewal.

Now, what they should do and what they actually do are two very different things, unfortunately.

[bmbmd]

42. If Tennessee is anything like Texas

he'll get a fine, a reprimand, and will have to attend classes. Happens amazingly frequently. I finished my CME last night-did two hours on the internet. (nothing like waiting until the last minute)

[formercia]

26. Anything to do with Frist is beating a dead horse

since he won't run again...

[samsingh]

27. is frist even a doctor?

[samsingh]

28. is frist - cat killer - even a doctor?

this idiot is really slimy.

[Canuckistanian]

29. They can't do anything without cheating, can they?

"AWOL" Bush, "Five Deferments" Cheney and "Rubber Stamp Signature" Rumsfeld - now "Hookey" Frist.

And these are the people with "higher morals" that we're supposed to bow down to?

[The Backlash Cometh]

30. White Collar crime! When the FBI decides to branch off and

start an organization to investigate these crimes, I'm sending in my resume.

[knitter4democracy]

32. WTF??!!! Isn't that a misdemeanor?

Btw, TN has easy requirements--my hubby has to average 50 credits a year, not 20.

I can't believe this! He's going to get away with this, I'd bet. The AMA loves him. The TN AMA chapter will probably help him out.

[BadgerKid]

34. Lucky for him honesty isn't a prereq. for pResidency n/t

[wicket]

35. Such an arrogant asshole

:grr:

[Kber]

36. Keeping up

''Dr. Frist regularly speaks with physicians on the cutting edge of medical research, reads numerous medical journal articles and attends medical meetings,'' Lehigh said.

So that's how he learned that you can get aids from public toilet seats (or was it tears). What ever.

[GeorgeGist]

37. Attending medical meetings...

usually counts towards CMEs; all you have to do is fill out and submit the form.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

38. His medical license should have been pulled after the Schiavo "diagnosis"

And now he lied about his CME's. Let me guess, the AMA will remain silent on this matter too.

[spanone]

39. Frist is a cheap suit.

[LibertyLover]

40. So, helping the vets at the National Zoo

care for their animals doesn't count as continuing education? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

[yellowcanine]

41. What, no credit for "Remote diagnosis of consciousness in a long term

catatonic adult female"??? Sheesh, that board is tough.

[WhiteTara]

43. Lying cat killing creep.

I look forward to the day he wears orange, eats bad food and sleeps on a lumpy mattress with 100 thread count sheets with a light shining in his face all night.