I had a hilarious idea...

[misanthrope]

...Al Franken (or another prominent liberal radio host) ought to make it a weekly routine to have a sick person (not terminally ill, though) wait on the telephone while he calls Frist's office and tries to solicit Frist's long-distance diagnostic abilities to give the "patient" a once over on the air. Of course, he would cite Frist's ridiculous behavior with Terri Schiavo and belabor the point ad infinitum with the staffers that would inevitably give him the runaround.