Special Bonus Coronavirus Episode - Senator Bill Frist, M.D.

Today, on A Second Opinion, we bring you a special episode outside of our regular Monday show schedule to provide up to date coverage on the 2019 novel coronavirus. I’ll cover all you need to know about this threatening virus, including policy, health and innovation. I’ll answer all the basic questions, including how dangerous the virus is to you and your family, where it came from and how fast it’s spreading, what symptoms to watch out for, and how different it is from the routine seasonal flu on the one hand and measles on the other. As a doctor I’ll give you my best clinical and medical Interpretation. But I will also be directly comparing this novel coronavirus ...this one known as 2019-nCoV, with a different species of coronavirus that I had direct, on-the-ground, personal experience with back in 2003 — the virus causing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome..., S A R S... the virus known as SARS. ... which caused the first pandemic of the 21st century. About Bill Frist Senator William Frist, M.D. is a nationally recognized heart and lung transplant surgeon, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, and chairs the Distinguished Executives Council of the health service investment firm Cressey & Company. He is actively engaged in the business as well as the medical, humanitarian, and philanthropic communities. The Honorable William H. Frist, M.D. Senator William Frist, MD, is a nationally recognized heart and lung transplant surgeon, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, founding partner of Frist Cressey Ventures and chairman of the Executives Council of the health services investment firm Cressey & Company. He is actively engaged in the business as well as the medical, humanitarian, and philanthropic communities. As a U.S. Senator representing Tennessee from 1994 -2006 (the first practicing physician elected to the Senate since 1928), Dr. Frist served on both the Health (HELP) and the Finance Committees responsible for writing all health legislation. He was elected Majority Leader of the Senate, having served fewer total years in Congress than any person chosen to lead that body in history. His leadership was instrumental in the passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act that established the Medicare prescription drug benefit, and the historic PEPFAR legislation that provided life-saving treatment globally to 20 million people and reversed the spread of HIV/AIDS worldwide. Senator Frist graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Frist completed surgical training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Stanford. As the founder and director of the Vanderbilt Multi-Organ Transplant Center, he performed over 150 heart and lung transplants, authored over 100 peer-reviewed medical articles, and published seven books on topics such as bioterrorism, transplantation, and leadership. He is board certified in both general and heart surgery. Dr. Frist annually has led medical mission trips to Africa and Haiti, and emergency response teams to disasters around the globe, including to Sri Lanka after the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Bangladesh, Sudan, New Orleans after Katrina, Haiti after the earthquake, and the horn of Africa. He is founder and chairman Hope Through Healing Hands, a humanitarian organization devoted to improving global health; NashvilleHealth, a community collaborative focused on improving the health of Nashvillians; and Tennessee’s State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), a statewide collaborative education reform organization that has helped propel Tennessee to prominence as a K12 education reform state. As a leading authority on healthcare, Senator Frist speaks nationally on health reform, government policy, global health, education reform, and volunteerism. He is the Co-Chair of the Health Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, and co-founder of Aspire Health, the nation’s largest non-hospice community-based palliative care company. His board service includes the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, and three publicly-traded companies: AECOM, Select Medical, and Teladoc Health. Senator Frist is one of only two individuals to rank in the top ten of each of the five inaugural Modern Healthcare Magazine annual surveys of the most influential people in healthcare in the United States. Dr. Frist is married and has three sons and lives on a farm in Franklin, Tennessee. Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ASOPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASOpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asopodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a-second-opinion-podcast Engage with Senator Frist on Social Media at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SenatorBillFrist/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billfris/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bfrist LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billfristmd/

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