Former GQP Senator Bill Frist Apparently Still Alive, Apparently Very "Concerned" About Ongoing Global Climate Collapse

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Bill Frist, the former Republican Senate majority leader, racked up a slew of notable medical successes during his years as one of the country’s top heart and lung surgeons. He founded one of the country’s busiest transplant centers. One of his patients held the Guinness World Record for being the longest surviving single lung transplant recipient. And, in 1991, Mr. Frist performed lifesaving thoracic surgery on Gen. David Petraeus, then a lieutenant-colonel, when, during a training exercise, the military leader was accidentally shot in the chest.

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In earnest writings, folksy videos recorded on his front porch in Tennessee, podcasts, speeches and congressional testimony, Mr. Frist has been highlighting the inseparability of planetary and human health. “A healthier planet means healthier people,” Mr. Frist said. “The science shows it. Our experience shows it. Nobody can really argue against that.”

This environmental advocacy puts Mr. Frist at odds with much of his own party and even his younger self. At his retirement from the Senate in 2007, the League of Conservation Voters gave Mr. Frist a lifetime rating of 7 percent for his legislative environmental record, which included voting for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. “Things like the Arctic, I definitely would not have voted that way today,” Mr. Frist said.

It seems Mr. Frist is making up for lost time. In June, he published a minute-long video detailing how ecosystem collapse and wildlife habitat loss imperils children’s brain development and immune response, by reducing their exposure to beneficial microbes. On Substack, where he has around 31,000 followers, he’s written about the ways air pollution speeds up cognitive decline. In 2023, he presented data to the Senate Budget Committee showing how rising temperatures lead to escalating health care costs. He is also writing a book about how climate and nature shapes human health.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/climate/bill-frist-climate-change-republican-politics.html

Ed. - Funny how the NYT doesn't mention his miraculous remote diagnosis of Terri Schiavo via videotape:

Terri Schiavo’s tragic saga mobilized a large contingent from the prolife movement in the U.S. and overseas, which, of course, meant certain politicians would follow their lead. We saw a prominent senator and transplant surgeon, Bill Frist, violate basic medical ethics when he stood on the floor of the Senate to make diagnostic claims about Terri Schiavo based solely on videotaped footage—which turned out to be misleading. We even saw George W. Bush drop everything on Palm Sunday and fly back to Washington to sign a so-called relief act, a specific law written just for the Schindlers to enable them to take their case to federal court. All these political machinations merely prolonged the tragedy.

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/terri-schiavos-legacy/

[Chasstev365]

1. So is Susan Collins

[Blues Heron]

2. his brain cells reacted too slowly to the science, but better late than never. welcome back to earth billy bob

[NNadir]

3. There's a Frist Center on Princeton's Campus.

He donated $25 million dollars - made from his ownership of for profit hospitals - to make one of the physics laboratories, once a leading institution in the world, into a social club.

I want to barf when I pass the building.

One can be very talented in one area and clueless in all others.

It's a little late in the game to notice that the world is burning.

[displacedvermoter]

4. He had presidential ambitions I recall,

that never came to fruition, ala Bobby Jindal, Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, Ted Cruz, Ben Sasse, Jeb Bush, Ron DeSantis, etc...

A Dream Team of losers

[DBoon]

5. tha cat killer?