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To: Alighieri who wrote (237550)6/17/2005 6:19:08 AM
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Frist Plagued Again by Comments on Schiavo

The Senate majority leader denies that he attempted to diagnose the Florida woman after an autopsy's findings contradict his remarks.

By Janet Hook, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — In the wake of the Terri Schiavo autopsy results, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has come under renewed fire for past statements that questioned her doctors' dire assessment of her medical condition, based on his own review of a videotape.

Frist, a surgeon and potential presidential candidate in 2008, on Thursday denied that he had contradicted doctors who had said the brain-damaged Florida woman was in a persistent vegetative state before her feeding tube was removed March 18. She died March 31.


"I never made the diagnosis," Frist said to reporters Thursday. "I wouldn't even attempt to make a diagnosis based on a videotape."

But Democratic political operatives circulated transcripts of Frist's statements in March that clearly questioned the doctors' diagnosis after he had watched the video footage of Schiavo.

"That footage, to me, depicted something very different than persistent vegetative state," Frist said March 17 on the Senate floor.

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The additional finding that she was blind and oblivious to what was happening around her was at odds with Frist's comment in his March 17 remarks in the Senate that "she certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli."

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