and that was like 6 years ago!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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:

Still, he gives a surprisingly frank and unsettling insight into conditions that could affect judgment, memory, and decision-making.

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 disease states that the general American population have and that it also applies to everyone including members of the U.S. House and Senate since they are also people just like you and I.”

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