Posted on 01/23/2024 11:23:41 PM PST by Libloather
A new Defense Department inspector general report reveals that a little-known in-house pharmacy at the White House erroneously dolled out prescription medications to staff and wasted $750,000 in taxpayer money.
One former pharmacy staff member told investigators that a doctor once asked if the staffer could "hook up" someone with a controlled substance "as a parting gift for leaving the White House."
The report, according to an article in Stat News, revealed that the pharmacy office dispensed controlled medications like Ambien and Provigil without verifying the patient’s identity.
Stat reported that in an office in the White House there was a sign that read "Pharmacy," but the people in charge of it insisted it wasn’t actually one.
The investigation, which was published this month, was conducted by the Department of Defense’s independent Office of the Inspector General as the White House pharmacy is run by the White House Military Office and its associated medical unit.
The probe was prompted by internal complaints the DOD received in 2018 about a senior military medical officer, who is not named, engaging in "improper medical practices." It covers only activity in the office through early 2020 under the Trump administration, but investigators interviewed staffers who also worked there under former President Obama, according to Stat.
According to the report, the "pharmacy" let people grab over-the-counter medicines from open bins.
It also found that a larger affiliate of the office inappropriately covered care for a whole host of personnel who weren’t eligible, costing more than $750,000 in wasted taxpayer funds in just three years. Stat notes that even that number is "fuzzy" because so many records were poorly kept and even handwritten.
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Tonight we hear the recording of the GOPe trying to bribe Lake in Arizona. Now it’s dealing dope out of the White House now. If YOU did that a SWAT team would attack your house by morning.
America needs to jam Trump straight down DC’s corrupt throat. DC needs an enema. A wholesale overthrow of the existing order.
They probably couldn’t decide if fentanyl and cocaine are the same class of drug.
As a pharmacy technician and patient alike, we have this going on at 1600 Penn while patients can’t get basic medications that are on backorder. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
There needs to be WAY more oversight.
Hunter just couldn’t resist, could he.
Whassamatter? Can’t they keep Adrenochrome in stock?
They use our money for free recreational drugs.Meanwhile, we peasants have to get doctor permission for basic medicines, as if we were children.
The only reason they’d publish something like this is that something really embarrassing is coming.
“A wholesale overthrow of the existing order”
Yes, the mother of all house cleanings.
It’s why Kamala Harris seems like she’s too happy!
We need more honest people in government jobs.
“Can’t they keep Adrenochrome in stock?”
They keep that in storage in deep underground tunnels.
;-)
Yeah, I’m 90% sure the bag of cocaine was Hunter’s from his dealer. But it sounds like it actually could have been anybody on the White House staff. Either way, no one wanted to investigate that little incident.
It’s going to be a hit job on Ronnie Jackson. I believe he was the White House’s doc during both Obama and Trump.
If he screwed up then he should be called out.
This could be a great guessing game-——who among the
exalted elected making our laws are battling Alzheimer’s?
By Sarah Kliffsarah@vox.com Oct 11, 2017, 10:20am EDT
pic——Congress Gridlocked Over Continuing Resolution Legislation
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images
Erin Mershon at STAT News recently spent some time shadowing the pharmacist who provides prescription drugs to many members of Congress.
Her story, which you can read in full here, includes a relatively alarming passage in which the pharmacist casually mentions that some members apparently have Alzheimer’s:
Mike Kim, the reserved pharmacist-turned-owner of the pharmacy, said he has gotten used to knowing the most sensitive details about some of the most famous people in Washington.
“At first it’s cool, and then you realize, I’m filling some drugs that are for some pretty serious health problems as well. And these are the people that are running the country,” Kim said, listing treatments for conditions like diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
“It makes you kind of sit back and say, ‘Wow, they’re making the highest laws of the land and they might not even remember what happened yesterday.’”
The current Congress is among the oldest in history, and more than half of the senators running for reelection in 2018 will be over 65. The average age in the House of Representatives is 57, and the average age in the Senate is 61.
The pharmacist doesn’t appear to have violated any patient privacy laws, which only restrict providing medical information that would identify a specific patient. (If he’d said which senator, for example, fills Alzheimer’s prescriptions, that would violate the law.) Still, he gives a surprisingly frank and unsettling insight into conditions that could affect judgment, memory, and decision-making.
Read the entire story here. linked at vox.com
Update: After this story went viral, the pharmacist interviewed provided an additional statement clarifying his remarks. “I am not aware of any member that actually has Alzheimer’s and would certainly not disclose any such information if I did know.” He added, “patient privacy is a very serious matter that I am committed to upholding.”
He said that he was “[s]peaking very broadly about Alzheimer’s.....a disease that the general American population has that it applies to everyone including members of the U.S. House and Senate since they are also people just like you and I.”
If you read through this, they’re saying it was in 2018. This sounds like a strike against Ronnie Jackson.
No suprise. The left runs the White House. Therefore, the left runs the pharmacy. And, as we all know, the left effs up everything they touch.
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