Bill Frist in Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter

On Families & Children: Diagnosis of Terry Schiavo disproven by autopsy

Making it clear that he was speaking as a heart surgeon, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist pronounced to his colleagues that he condemned the judicial consensus, "based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office here in the Capital. And that footage, to me, depicted something very different than persistent vegetative state." This diagnosis contradicted the subsequent medical examiner's autopsy performed on Mrs. Schiavo, which reported that she was blind and her brain was "grossly abnormal," less than half its normal size.