Potholes in the Road to 2008
Here's a little something we can file away for when Senator Bill Frist, MD, begins his run for the presidency sometime in 2007; via NY Daily News:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has championed the "rescue" of Terri Schiavo, is a renowned heart surgeon who has pulled the plug on a "regular basis," his office acknowledged yesterday. But Frist (R-Tenn.) ended life support only when the patient was ruled brain-dead, and he is convinced Schiavo is not brain-dead. "He certainly has a lot of clinical experience" in the withdrawal of life support, said Frist spokeswoman Amy Call. Frist, the driving force behind the Senate bill to move Schiavo's case to federal court and a likely 2008 presidential candidate, is under fire for declaring she is not brain-dead after reviewing a video of Schiavo. "On a regular basis, he's dealt with a diagnosis of brain death," Call said defending Frist, a heart and general surgeon. Medical ethicists like Dr. Kenneth Prager, chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, say it's "inappropriate" for Frist to make an armchair diagnosis. "A diagnosis should be made bedside by a neurologist. He's not a neurologist, and he wasn't bedside," Prager said.