I know it's preaching to the choir around here to say that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a pretty creepy guy. But there's something unique and special about this
"Off Camera" look at Frist in today's Washington Post.
It turns out he's creepier than anyone ever imagined. Here's a quote to entice you:
"Well, your first patient was a dog," Karyn [Frist's wife] said. In medical school, Frist cut out a dog's heart and held it in his palm. It continued to beat for a slippery minute.
"Watching it beat, the beauty of it," Frist recalled. "I decided I would spend my life centered around the heart."
More on the flip, including a reference to gorilla testosterone.
As if the dog heart thing wasn't creepy enough, I'd have to say this rambling monologue also caught me by surprise - is this Bill Frist endorsing evolution?
Frist listened to the heart; the gorilla's lub-dub sounded human. "When you're this close, you feel this kind of oneness with them," Frist said. The stink of ape sweat and gorilla testosterone soaked his hair and clothes. "Gorillas, people, men. You look at the people here, a symphonic flow of people pitching in. It's the oneness of humanity."
Perhaps most interesting, though, is the part where Frist essentially says he doesn't like public service and would rather just be a heart surgeon again. And frankly, that's fine with me:
"There's almost a spiritual, poetic component to it," Frist said, his eyes expressing what his surgical mask hid. "This oneness, this wholeness. You can't compare it to the Senate floor. I immerse myself in it. This is my real life."
Um, well, you just get back to that real life as soon as possible, Dr. Creepy.. I mean, Frist.