For example, the WH physician drinking on the job along with taking other unprescribed meds.
That's certainly bad....and I definitely missed it in the report. I aldo find it odd it wasn't mentioned in the articles about the report.
Can you tell me which page of the report this was on? Surely his license to practice medicine was revoked?
People being handed controlled drugs without being eligible or even having a prescription. Stuff like that.
Again, if the Dr was handing himself drugs and drinking on the job, his license to practice would be revoked. You're telling me he was just fired. He wasn't prosecuted for any of this?
No, you added "their prescriptions." They point is they didn't have them. In some cases, the IG found people sharing the meds.
The IG report said they might not have had them....which seems a lot less certain than you are claiming.
If they didn't have prescriptions, they were committing insurance fraud...which I would have to assume is the issue of the brand name meds vs the generics lol. If there's no written records....no prescriptions....how would they possibly know what was handed out?
They appear to know exactly what was handed out...and I can only assume it's because they had prescriptions if the pharmacy wasn't keeping records properly.
But again, I don't recall seeing this in the report....so if you can quote where it says they were handed out without a prescription, you really should quote that part....not the part you quoted. That just goes on about who eligible to use the WH pharmacy and who isn't.
WH staffers were provided meds in violation of federal law, according to the IG report:
It's a WH pharmacy, it's supposed to be subject to the same federal rules as any other pharmacy. I noted that.
The Office of the Inspector General said in a news release that the problems it uncovered in the White House clinic were “severe and systemic.”
The report is based on reviews of records from the White House Medical Unit, including prescriptions, from between 2017 and 2019. In addition, investigators interviewed more than 120 officials, including hospital administrators, military medical providers and pharmacists. The office also reviewed the transcripts of 70 previous interviews with former members of the White House Military Office who served there between 2009 and 2018.
The interviews indicated that medication was often dispensed without any written records. Before “we would get ready for a big overseas trip,” staffers were directed to make “prepacks” that consisted of plastic sandwich bags containing the sleeping drug Ambien as well as the stimulant Provigil, which is meant to help people stay awake. Both are categorized as controlled substances, meaning they require special handling and record-keeping by pharmacies because they carry a risk for dependence and abuse.
Lol again, as I already mentioned, those appear to be medications for sleep disorders...one helps you fall asleep...one helps you stay awake. If you give it a moment or two of thought....the term "overseas trip" explains the whole thing.....jet lag.
Perhaps you think it's a big deal to prescribe staff a couple of medications to deal with jet lag so they aren't all unable to work after a long flight but honestly, I couldn't care less. It doesn't sound like it has anything to do with the "stress" of working with Trump and everything to do with jet lag. Perhaps that sounds like a "drug culture" to you...but it sounds entirely practical to me. We aren't talking about the staff taking turns blowing lines of cocaine in the restroom with Hunter and his "paid by the hour" girlfriend.
