Witch Doctor Bill Frist talks voodoo to George Stephanopoulos

[Ruffhowse]

From ABC's This Week:

"STEPHANOPOULOS: Now you're a doctor. Do you believe that tears and sweat can transmit HIV?
FRIST: I don't know. I can tell you --
STEPHANOPOULOS: You don’t know?
FRIST: I can tell you things like, like --
STEPHANOPOULOS: Wait. Let me stop you there. You don't know that, you believe that tears and sweat might be able to transmit AIDS?
FRIST: Yeah, no, I can tell you that HIV is not very transmissible as an element, like compared to smallpox, compared to the flu, it's not.
(snip)
STEPHANOPOULOS: ...Let me just clear this up though, do you or do you not believe that tears and sweat can transmit HIV?
FRIST: It would be very hard...for tears and sweat to -- I mean, you can get virus in tears and sweat. But in terms of the degree of infecting somebody, it would be very hard."

[pleiku52cab]

1. Where did First get his medical degree - Bob Jones Univ?

[BeeBee]

3. You beat me to that reply! n/t

[NikolaTeslaRocks]

2. Frist is a

idiot that is bought and paid for by drug companies that will force anyone on drugs in a heartbeat given the chance. This guy should be removed from political office for many many reasons.

[MissMarple]

4. Frist is a politician. He is too removed from the practice of medicine

to have accurate information. And he was never in primary care, internal medicine or epidemiology. So, ...he's clueless.