In a touching speech at NBAA last week, Bill Frist accepted the annual Al Ueltschi Award for Humanitarian Leadership. A pilot, surgeon and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Frist received the award for his extensive humanitarian work in all corners of the world.
Frist credited his brother, with whom he shares four major passions — aviation, medicine, business and philanthropy — with inspiring him and his family to fly. He likened business aviation to his surgical knife as the instrument with which he can treat people who otherwise would not have access to health care. “Aviation causes those barriers in this shrinking world to just disappear,” Frist said.
