Editing Bill Frist (section)

==Early life and education==
Frist was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of Dorothy (née Cate) Frist and [[Thomas F. Frist Sr.|Thomas Fearn Frist Sr]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wargs.com/political/frist.html|title=Ancestry of Bill Frist|website=www.wargs.com}}</ref> He is a fourth-generation Tennessean. His father was a doctor and co-founded the health care business organization which became [[Hospital Corporation of America]] (HCA). Frist's brother, HCA co-founder [[Thomas F. Frist, Jr.]], became chairman and chief executive of HCA in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hcas-ipo-could-be-a-boon-for-hospital-industry-2010-04-15|title=HCA's public offering could be boon for hospitals|first=Russ|last=Britt|date=April 15, 2010|publisher=MarketWatch}}</ref> His other siblings include Robert A. Frist; Dorothy F. Boensch; and Mary F. Barfield.<ref>{{cite news|title=Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., HCA Founder, Dies at 87|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/08/business/dr-thomas-frist-sr-hca-founder-dies-at-87.html|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=June 24, 2015|date=January 8, 1998|last1=Gilpin|first1=Kenneth N.}}</ref>

Frist graduated in 1970 from [[Montgomery Bell Academy]] in Nashville, and then from Princeton University's [[Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]] in 1974. Frist was a member of [[University Cottage Club]] while he was a student at Princeton.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About the Cottage Club|url=https://www.cottageclub.net/about-cottage-club|access-date=January 3, 2021|website=University Cottage Club|language=en-US}}</ref> In 1972, he held a summer internship with Tennessee Congressman [[Joe L. Evins]], who advised Frist that if he wanted to pursue a political career, he should first have a career outside politics.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fox |first=David A. |date=November 9, 1994 |title=" Frist adds Senate seat to achievements list." |url= |work=[[The Tennessean]] |pages=13}}</ref> Frist proceeded to Harvard Medical School, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine with honors in 1978.

While he was a [[medical school]] student in the 1970s, Frist acknowledged in his book ''Transplant'' that he performed medical experiments and [[vivisection]] on shelter cats while conducting research at Harvard Medical School. He writes about having succumbed to the pressure to succeed in a highly competitive medical school, acknowledging it was "a heinous and dishonest thing to do."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Frist |first=Bill |title=Transplant: A Heart Surgeon's Account of the Life-And-Death Dramas of the New Medicine |publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press |year=1989}}</ref> This issue became controversial in his first Senate campaign in 1994, and gained national attention after his election to Senate Majority Leader.<ref>{{cite news|title=First Responder| last=Kranish| first=Michael| work=[[Boston Globe Magazine]]| date=October 27, 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021101052043/http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/1027/coverstory_entire.htm|archive-date=November 1, 2002|url=https://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/1027/coverstory_entire.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| author=Kerr, Gail|title=Kitty-killer label litters Frist resume for president|format=fee required|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/tennessean/access/1766215121.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jun+12%2C+2006&author=GAIL+KERR&pub=The+Tennessean&edition=&startpage=B.1&desc=Kitty-killer+label+litters+Frist+resume+for+president| date=June 12, 2006| work=[[The Tennessean]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130624213002/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/tennessean/access/1766215121.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jun+12,+2006&author=GAIL+KERR&pub=The+Tennessean&edition=&startpage=B.1&desc=Kitty-killer+label+litters+Frist+resume+for+president|archive-date=June 24, 2013}}</ref>