Australian doctor was suspended for improper practice of medicine

Several physician abuse their position, recommending preparations which don’t correspond to therapeutic needs of patients. Why do they do it? It is known that certain medications are considered to be prescription medications. It means that you can’t purchase them legally, if you don’t have any prescription from your treating doctor. Anabolic steroids belong to such drugs. It is illegal to buy steroids without a prescription in certain countries. Those who do it may be punished. They may be sentenced to imprisonment and/or fines. Of course, numerous people are looking for ways to buy and administer these preparations without having legal troubles.
Anabolic steroids are often abused. Numerous sportspersons and bodybuilders use these medicines not for therapeutic purposes but for performance-enhancing effects. If they live in countries where these drugs can’t be bought legally without prescriptions, they find certain ways to mask their illegal purchase and administration. Athletes, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their doctors to prescribe them these products, as if they had medical needs to use them. Thus, some physicians promote selling anabolic steroids to those that abuse them. Here is a case.
Peter Grant, an Australian health care provider, prescribed steroids to 14 patients during nine years. Medical state of these persons didn’t require administration of these products. Thus, the health care provider was accused of improper practicing medicine. For example, he prescribed to a patient applying such preparations, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to recommend these medicines to this man. Furthermore, these products were prescribed him during nine years.
The health care provider Peter Grant acknowledged that several patients were competing. Thus, he prescribed them steroids. He also admitted to reading scientific information about anabolic steroids. He confirmed that he knew how steroids worked. So, he supervised the patients who administered anabolic steroids.
Taking these factors in consideration, it is possible to claim that the doctor Peter Grant was better known by those that used steroids for enhancement of performance than by those that had to be cured from some diseases. Peter Grant confirmed that he knew that steroids were bought by his patients just for personal administration.
When the doctor appeared in the court, the judge claimed that the doctor induced selling steroids. The judge noted that Peter Grant had to be punished appropriately. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for a year. Furthermore, the judge stated that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.