Australian doctor was accused of improper medical practice

Several physician abuse their position, recommending products that don’t correspond to therapeutic needs of patients. Why does it happen? It is known that several products are claimed to be prescription medicines. It means that you can’t purchase them legally, if you don’t have any prescription from your treating physician. Anabolic steroids belong to such medications. It is illegal to buy steroids without a prescription in several countries. Those who do it may be punished. They may be sentenced to imprisonment and/or fines. Of course, a lot of individuals seek methods to get and administer these drugs without having legal problems.
Anabolic steroids are often abused. A lot of sportspersons and bodybuilders take these products not for clinical needs but for enhancement of performance. If they live in countries where these medicines can’t be bought legally without prescriptions, they find some ways to mask their illegal purchase and application. Sportspeople, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their physicians to prescribe them these drugs, as if they had therapeutic needs to administer them. Thus, certain physicians induce selling anabolic steroids to those who abuse them. Here is a case.
Peter Grant, an Australian health care provider, prescribed steroids to 14 persons during 9 years. Medical state of these persons didn’t require intake of these drugs. Thus, the doctor was accused of inappropriate practicing medicine. For example, he recommended to a patient taking such preparations, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to prescribe these medicines to this man. Furthermore, these drugs were prescribed him during nine years.
The doctor Peter Grant acknowledged that some patients were competing. So, he prescribed them steroids. He also admitted to learning scientific information about anabolic steroids. He claimed that he knew how steroids worked. Thus, he supervised the patients who applied anabolic steroids.
Taking these factors into account, it is possible to claim that the health care provider Peter Grant was better known by those who administered steroids for increase of performance than by those that had to be cured from some health problems. Peter Grant confirmed that he knew that steroids were purchased by his patients only for personal usage.
When the doctor appeared in the court, the judge claimed that the physician promoted selling steroids. The judge noticed that Peter Grant had to be punished properly. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for 12 months. Furthermore, the judge confirmed that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.