March 18 - Bill Frist addresses the Senate, "speaking more as a physician than as a US senator. There is insufficient information to conclude that Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state. I question it based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office. She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli."
June 15 - The autopsy goes public.
"(AP) An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner said Wednesday. He also said that her brain was about half of its expected size."
June 16 - A humbled Frist is contrite. "I never, never, on the floor of the Senate, made a diagnosis, nor would I ever do that," he tells the Today show. "I never said she responded." Showing as firm a grasp of the word "never" as he does of his Hippocratic Oath, he adds: "Would I do it over again? Yes, I would do it over again."