Posted on 10/12/2017 7:05:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Wednesday morning, Stat published a piece on the quaint, old-school pharmacy that hand-delivers prescription medications to our hardworking Congress members on the Hill each day.
While the piece was focused on the history and workings of the pharmacy, the Internet zeroed in on one eye-popping section:
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 its cool, and then you realize, Im 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 Alzheimers.
It makes you kind of sit back and say, Wow, theyre making the highest laws of the land and they might not even remember what happened yesterday.
The section clearly suggests that some members of Congress have Alzheimers or some other medical condition that may impair their ability to function in their jobs.
The Internet responded swiftly. Vox did a piece highlighting the section. People on Twitter expressed dismay at the revelation and the apparent breach in trust.
Now, Kim is backpedaling. In a follow-up story on Stat, he tried to set the record straight saying that he was only speaking in hypothetical terms.
I was speaking very broadly about disease states that the general American population have and that it also applies to everyone including members of the US House and Senate since they are also people just like you and I.
He went further, adding:
I am not aware of any member that actually has Alzheimers and would certainly not disclose any such information if I did know... patient privacy is a very serious matter that I am committed to upholding.
As Vox pointed out, the original revelation doesnt appear to violate patient privacy laws because he didnt identify any specific patients.
Not Alzheimer's.
Alzheimers has a slow decline, usually linear.
In Lewy body dementia, a person can be simply talking, then "zones out" and forgets where they were.
Forgetting words, etc.
The clarification is almost inconsequential; the main subject, not so much.
Imagine the smug, self-important GOPe and their electorate which has not been shy about psychoanalyzing Trump, even our gazillion of illegals have played the game; a few self proclaimed "professionals" have posted long, humorously protracted uninvited analyses of Trump's mental and character impairments, and few Freepers, beside myself have in the last 20 years questioned the absence in our Constitution about a provision, besides age, parentage and place of birth, to qualify to run and actually serve as president.
And evidently neither did it occur to the Founding Fathers or a single reader of the Federalist papers!
Nothing short of astounding.
That could be the least of his worries...........
I take seriously the medical explanations I've read that dementia is the synonym for Alzheimer's, which is the proper practice, since Alzheimers can only be confirmed via autopsy.
There is no pre-death test/diagnostic medical tool.
Mind you, there are many I wish could have been autopsied before they died...
"Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement (motor control)."
Link :
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lewy-body-dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20352025
The Latin word for brain is cerebrum
I continue to learn something new every day.
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