Why did Frist leave medicine?

[serryjw]

Doesn't his family own hospitals?

[mortlefaucheur]

1. The Cat's Meow? n/t

[Kagemusha]

2. Yes, so his family benefits from senate medical legislation under Frist

Makes sense now?

[liberalhistorian]

8. DING DING DING DING DING!

We have a winnah!!!!

No one makes a peep about that, but everyone screams about all those eeeevil, awful "librul" lawyers in Congress. Sickening.

[serryjw]

13. I'm ashamed

I let my guard down...that didn't occur to me. I should have know it had something to do with money!

[gatorboy]

18. I have to find the article

but it talks about how the stock for his family businesses have quadrupled since he took office, mostly thanks to the legislation he has helped push through.

[serryjw]

20. Ohhhhhhh, please do an PM me

I'd love to have this litle gem!

[AlCzervik]

3. so he could propose legislation to make his family more money.

[havocmom]

19. And promote tort 'reform' so they get sued less often

It's all about the $$ and the REAL civil war in America is between industries, like, oh, say Mega Medical, Big Pharma, and Insidious Insurance.

There is a bidding war on for the hearts, minds, and favors of US Congress. The winning bidders get legislation that gives their industry an edge, for the time being. Then, the GOP controlled Congress asks if the other industries want to raise their bids.

Nice racket.

[Tim4319]

4. Not enough money it!

Why settle for millions in hospital business when he can make billions off of the U.S. Treasury?

[liberalhistorian]

5. Cats finally got wise to him and

blackballed him, so he had nothing to practice on? :evilgrin:

[Jim Sagle]

6. Ran out of cats.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. rising malpractice insurance based on history?

[BrklynLiberal]

9. His patients ran him out.

[longship]

10. If it quacks...

[Fuzz]

11. Diagnosing people in person was too easy.

Wanted something more challenging, so he switched to video tape.

[MazeRat7]

12. Because it involved actually having to care for and about people ?

[tech3149]

14. surgeons with DT's are a no-no n/t

[mcctatas]

15. shit...

all of the relevant cat comments have been made, but he didn't truly leave medicine, he can still diagnose and debunk a vegetative state via video!;)

[rustydog]

16. His "diagnosing by video" learning tapes sold like hotcakes?

[titoresque]

17. He didn't Looky here>>>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301380_pf.html

snip.

At 9:30 a.m., Frist opened the Senate, gripping the corners of the lectern, as he had the operating table. Across the city, rolling in a bed of hay, Kuja opened his eyes and grunted. The gorilla kept touching his tongue to his tooth. Something had changed inside of the beast while he slept. Frist smiled and spoke unremarkably from the lectern, reeking of silverback testosterone.