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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCommittee document: Jackson had "private stocks of controlled substances,"
and "questionable record keeping."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/us/politics/ronny-jackson-veterans-affairs-nomination.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=66882998&pgtype=Homepage
The document includes allegations that Dr. Jackson regularly distributed Ambien, a prescription sleep aid, to members of the White House staff and members of the news media flying on long overseas trips, as well as another prescription drug to promote wakefulness.
It says that the committee was told that physicians working with Dr. Jackson felt uncomfortable and refused to be a part of the loose dispensing of drugs to current and former White House staff. It also states that Dr. Jackson also had private stocks of controlled substances.
The document says that the committee received testimony that the White House medical unit had questionable record keeping for pharmaceuticals and that the committee was told that Dr. Jackson would often only account for pills after distributing them.
One former medical staff member described Dr. Jackson as a kiss up, kick down boss, who mistreated subordinates and created a hostile work environment.
tanyev
(42,661 posts)The spectacle of the glowing press conference about Trumps physical now makes perfect sense.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)Spanky likes being kissed up to more than anything else. I don't know whether Jackson's kissing up was related to having the VA job dangled before him or whether it's just something he always does with his bosses, but it sure explains that 239 lbs. of Trumpian lard.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)He totally made Trump nominate this guy to run the VA, and now Trump's standing there like a novelty cigar just blew up in his face. You can bet the lie-beral media will try to make this look like sloppiness on Trump's part, and that will be just so unfair. How is it unfair? It just is, and shut up!