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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

MundiMuster! Revoke Frist’s Medical License

[via Liberal Oasis] [L]ast December, Bill Scher of the consistently fine Liberal Oasis blog encouraged his readers to contact the Nashville Academy of Medicine and request that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's medical license be revoked, because he violated the AMA Code of Medical Ethics when he deliberately and cynically spread damaging misinformation about HIV transmission and condom use.

And now, "once again," writes Scher, Frist "has violated his pledge to 'be honest in all professional interactions,' 'advance scientific knowledge' and 'maintain a commitment to medical education' by claiming to make a superior diagnosis than Terri Schiavo’s doctors by watching a few video clips."

Follow the link to Liberal Oasis, where Scher has obtained the official Nashville Academy of Medicine grievance form from the Academy’s Executive Director and provided an easy automagic way "[t]o file an ethics complaint, download the form, follow the directions," whereupon you need to "have it notarized, and return it to the address at the bottom of the form."

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