Frist LIES to Tenn. Medical License Board

[Tinksrival]

He did not put in the 40 hours required for renewal. He is spinning now that he did realize the rules. BULLSHIT! He signed the paperwork and turned it in. I call LIAR and CHEAT!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060829/ap_on_el_se/frist_medical_license

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Starting with renewal applications filed in January 2005, the state required doctors to have completed 40 hours of continuing education in the two years that preceded their filing.

A renewal application Frist filed with the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners in February of this year specifically mentions the continuing education requirement and bears his signature.

Courses or programs are supposed to follow guidelines set by the American Medical Association or the American Academy of Family Physicians, according to Tennessee rules. Approved training generally includes attending accredited conferences or workshops and seminars.

Doctors in Tennessee are required to retain proof that they participated in such programs in case the Board of Medical Examiners decides to audit them. Doctors do not have to submit such evidence when they renew their license every two years.

Frist is retiring from the Senate at the end of the year to consider a presidential run. As a senator, Frist doesn't maintain a medical practice but routinely emphasizes his experience as a doctor.

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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.

[Sadie5]

1. Frist certainly needs more education

IMO due to his aids theory and his diagnosis of Terry Schaivo via video

[gatorboy]

2. Lately they've only let him work on gorillas.

And they end up DEAD!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/03/AR2006070301108.html

[Erika]

5. Just like the cats he "adopted" as pets

They ended up dead because of his illegal surgical experimentation on them.

[rustydog]

3. He did not lie, he simply diagnosed heart-lung maladies

on video sent to him by the same group who provided the Schiavo tape.

[C_U_L8R]

4. I hope taxpayers aren't paying for those 40 hours

Frist should at least take unpaid leave if he wants to maintain his MD

come to think of it... he could just leave. period

[rodeodance]

6. This should do him in!

[rodeodance]

8. And aide is making excuses for him:

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.

"As a result of a change in Tennessee's regulations several years after Dr. Frist came to the Senate, he may be required to complete additional continuing medical education hours," spokesman Matt Lehigh said in a statement. "A representative of the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners has been contacted, and Dr. Frist will meet every requirement of the Board."

Lehigh indicated that he thought Frist was unaware of a change Tennessee officials enacted in November 2002, which required continuing education for doctors who want to keep active licenses.

[Lars39]

7. Please write letters to the Tennessean and any other newspaper

you can think of. :)