March 23, 2005

Tag, You're Frist!
by Liza Sabater

Diagnose Me, Dr. Frist! | Personal Democracy Forum

Speaking on the Senate floor "more as a physician than as a US senator," Senate Majority Bill Frist, MD, said he believed there was "insufficient information to conclude that Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state."

The one impressive thing about the "diagnosis" that Frist made on the Senate floor was that it involved -- you guessed it -- technology!

Frist apparently used a digital video of Schiavo to determine that the Florida woman who has been fed artificially since she was brain damaged in 1990 might not be in a vegitative state.

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So, I'll issue a challenge:

Take a digital picture or video of your medical problem --tennis elbow, acne, runny nose, hemorrhoids, or whatever ails you - and send it to the doctor in charge of the US Senate and your health care.

Everyone, take two minutes and upload your photos to Flickr.com. "Tag" the photo "Frist." If we get critical mass, we'll send everyone's photos to Dean Rosen, the good doctor's Health Care policy director!

Isn't this exciting?

Frist's is a retro-new type of medical practice. It's a repurposing of a that all-American Christian Evangelical tradition : the televangelist.

Dare we say Frist is a telesycian? If we put our hand on the TV when he pops his head on FoxNews, will he heal us? Jeah-zus healed me through the healing talking head of Dr. Bill Frist. Preh-aizzzz the lawd!

So I hope Dr. Frist can hEAl my sciatica. It's the #1 thing reminds me I'm old --and y'all know how vain and in denial I am.

Heal me Dr. Frist, HEAL ME!

Posted by Liza Sabater in Activism, Creativity, Culture of Life, Folksonomies, Humor, Politics, Taxonomies
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