Diagnose This!

By Mary Ann Akers
Roll Call Staff

March 28, 2005, 12 a.m.

The Senate’s top doctor, Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), has many new and unwanted patients. Over the past several days, they’ve been bombarding Frist’s office with e-mails, describing their ailments, some of them pretty gnarly, and begging for a diagnosis.

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