Today an elderly woman came into the pharmacy to pick up her medicines.  As usual, I had to ask her name and birthdate, to make sure that I was giving the medicine to the right person.  Well, this poor old woman couldn’t remember her birthdate!  She has Alzheimer’s and said she couldn’t remember!  Well, I had her show me her driver’s license so I could verify who she was, and then I consulted with the pharmacist.  I felt that we should call her caretaker and ask if she was ok to be out on her own, but the pharmacist said to just ask her if she was driving or walking.  When she said she was walking, the pharmacist said to let her leave!  I was certain that we were going to hear on the news tonight that she had gone missing, but I didn’t hear anything.  I guess no news is good news, but I was very disturbed that we just let her leave!