follow up re Dr. Pointsman Goes to Washington

[pynchonoid]

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021231-071056-3546r

Frist asked to atone for killing cats 

By Dee Ann Divis
Science and Technology Editor
>From the Science & Technology Desk
Published 12/31/2002 8:13 PM
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is being asked by an animal
advocacy group to support legislation for better
animal treatment to make up for fraudulently adopting
cats from animal shelters then experimenting on and
killing them while he was a medical student. 

A Dec. 31 letter from the People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals asked Frist to make amends by
pressing for reforms that would replace old-style
tests where animals are subjected to painful and
sometimes deadly procedures with newer, more humane
approaches. They also requested that he help fund
research to find non-animal alternatives. 

Frist acknowledged in a 1989 book that he routinely
killed cats while an ambitious medical student at
Harvard Medical School in the 1970s. His office said
it had no record on how many cats died. Frist
disclosed that he went to animal shelters and
pretended to adopt the cats, telling shelter personnel
he intended to keep them as pets. Instead he used them
to sharpen his surgical skills, killing them in the
process.

The newly elected leader of the Senate Republicans
revealed the practice in his book "Transplant: A Heart
Surgeon's Account of the Life-and-Death Dramas of the
New Medicine." [...] 

Though Frist's practice has been known for 11 years,
the matter appears to be gathering new attention since
his election as Senate majority leader. E-mail with
copies of news articles mentioning the incident are
bouncing around the Internet, said Bresch.  [...]




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