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What was kept quiet for many years is now publicly known. Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, who was the physician for two presidents, and traveled with them, distributed controlled substances to people with whom he did not have a doctor-patient relationship. He is also apparently an alcoholic. He drove drunk and totaled a government vehicle. He also got drunk on the job and made such an obvious public disturbance in a hotel that the Secret Service had to intervene.
As a military physician, he needs to maintain an active medical license in good standing in at least one jurisdiction (a state or the District of Columbia) in order to practice medicine. ANY physician who has behaved the way that he has would at the very minimum be investigated, pay a heavy fine, be mandated to enter an impaired physician treatment program, and be allowed to practice only under direct supervision. More likely, they would lose their DEA controlled substance prescribing license, and lose their medical license. In addition, they would be criminally prosecuted for the unauthorized distribution of controlled substances.
This has nothing to do with politics - NO medical board nowadays can ignore such allegations.
In addition, his colleagues in the Navy HAD to have known of this. They had a duty to report him, just as the other physicians, nurses, etc in a hospital or clinic setting need to report an impaired physician to the medical board, before a patient is harmed. In this case, the patient could have been the president of the United States.
It's worse than we thought. He reportedly promoted, even enforced a culture where physicians under him were pressured to just hand out medications, even controlled substances, on request, without a visit or an exam. Sometimes controlled substances were diverted for parents to use on children. The reported "scramble" to account for medications (distribution of controlled substances needs to be documented and tightly controlled, BY LAW). Not only did HE break the law, he forced others working under him to either break the law or quit rather than violate the terms of their medical licenses and DEA certificates.
He needs to lose his license. And maybe go to prison.
When you're famous or stinking rich, so many crimes you commit are exempt from the consequences normal old Joe faces. It is SO unfair, but at least now his name will be dragged through the muck.
When you're famous or stinking rich, so many crimes you commit are exempt from the consequences normal old Joe faces. It is SO unfair, but at least now his name will be dragged through the muck.
Perhaps the physician board of his state will take notice....
Perhaps the physician board of his state will take notice....
I also see a likely early retirement from the Navy. No doubt he'll 'want to spend more time with his family'.
Did he seriously think his past wouldn't come up if he were nominated to a cabinet post? Why he allowed himself to be nominated is beyond me, but perhaps it was a good thing for the Navy, in the long run.
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Why he allowed himself to be nominated is beyond me, but perhaps it was a good thing for the Navy, in the long run.
