Thomas Frist
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Thomas Fearn Frist, Sr. (December 15, 1910 – January 4, 1998) was an American businessman. He is the father of US Senator Bill Frist. He received his undergraduate education from the University of Mississippi and his medical degree from Vanderbilt University. In 1968, with his son, Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., and Jack Massey, who helped Harland Sanders create the Kentucky fried chicken chain, he founded Hospital Corporation of America, the largest private operator of health care facilities in the world, taking the company public in 1969.[1] Thus Thomas F. Frist Sr. is "widely regarded as the father of the modern for-profit hospital system" in the USA.[2]
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- ^ Maggie Mahar, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much (Collins, 2006), p. 83.
- ^ Kenneth N. Gilpin (January 8, 1998). "Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., HCA Founder, Dies at 87". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E2D81130F93BA35752C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print.
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