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Entry from PushFluids.com/blog (for some reason, my hyperlinking isn't working) :

Whenever shit starts getting a little too real, I can always count on Dr. Senator Bill Frist to take us all back down a notch to a world where HIV may, in fact be spread by tears, and complex neurologic diagnoses can be made by watching a video. His level of diagnostic prowess simply cannot be matched. Even Dr. William Osler broke his 86 year silence to say "That mofo is so hot right now."

The mark of a great physician, nay, a great scientist is refusing to bow to the tremendous pressure of objectivity -- to hold tightly, eyes squinched closed to your conclusions no matter how loud the din of the "facts" beating down your door. When the doctors following Terri Schiavo for years diagnosed her as being in a persistent vegetative state, with no hope of meaningful recovery, Dr. Frist cried "Nay." When a CT scan from 1998, 2 years after the anoxic brain injury caused by a massive myocardial infarction, showed that Mrs. Schiavo's cerebral cortex was all but gone, Dr. Frist plugged his ears and clapped louder. And now that Mrs. Schiavo's husband, and several of her friends have testified in court (clearly and convincingly enough to have multiple state courts rule in their favor) that Terri did not want to live in such a state, Dr. Frist made it a Blockbuster night, and told them from the floor of the Senate, "Suck it."

And so, for his ability to see in several minutes of videotaped footage, having never met the patient, what multiple doctors failed to appreciate after actually examining the patient over a nearly 10 year period, it is my pleasure to bestow upon Dr. Senator Billiam Frist the First Annual Push Fluids Diagnostic Douchebag Award. Considering that I am routinely stumped by the "Diagnosis" section of the New York Times Magazine, I stand in awe of your doctorly skills. I look forward to the day when I can diagnose thyroid cancer based solely on a recording of the patient singing the Oak Ridge Boy's classic, "Elvira."

Oh, how I do love those crazy kids at PushFluids.