Bill Frist, the lying physician?

A little discussed topic in the news caught my attention lately. Senator Bill Frist, who maintains an active medical license in Tennessee, seems to have lied or misrepresented his continuing medical education requirements.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060829/ap_on_el_se/frist_medical_license
Despite stating that he completed his CME requirements, diligent work by the Associated Press revealed that Dr. Frist had not completed the CME.
Further actions by the Tennessee medical board are pending, but my guess is that Dr. Frist will get off with little more than a slap on the wrist for this lie.
After the Terri Schiavo fiasco, with Dr. Frist "diagnosing" Terri as not being in a persistent vegetative state, would anyone trust such a man to take a scalpel to them as a cardiac surgeon?!?
The real point that I wanted to highlight, though, from Dr. Frist's misrepresentation of his license requirements, is that much that goes on in medicine is dependent on the honor system. To maintain a license, doctors are asked questions such as have you been sued for malpractice, arrested, or kept up with CME requirements. The truth behind these questions are often never verified or investigated by medical boards. In Dr. Frist's case, only diligent efforts by the press revealed his false CME requirement claim.
Perhaps it is time to realize that the honor system doesn't always work. Answers need to be verified in detail. Patients deserve doctors who are honest about themselves and maintain their medical knowledge and meet other license requirements.