Inside Grubb’s, the little corner pharmacy that supplies Congress with drugs
Mike Kim has an interesting, if not nationally critical, job: Supplying drugs to the secretive primary care office in the bowels of the Capitol Building. It’s a relationship that Kim’s pharmacy, Grubb’s, and the Office of the Attending Physician have had for decades.
“At first it’s cool, and then you realize, I’m filling some drugs that are for some pretty serious health problems as well. And these are the people that are running the country,” Kim told STAT News.
From his unassuming corner store a few blocks away from the Capitol, Kim says he’s prescribed treatments for conditions from diabetes to Alzheimer’s.
“It makes you kind of sit back and say, ‘Wow, they’re making the highest laws of the land and they might not even remember what happened yesterday,’” said the owner of the 150-year-old pharmacy.
Read the full story on Grubb’s, the OAP, and the lawmakers who sometimes stop by Kim’s pharmacy in-person for their over-the-counter medication over on STAT.
