Australian physician got suspension for inappropriate medical practice

Some doctors abuse their position, prescribing preparations which don’t correspond to medical needs of patients. Why do they do it? It is known that several drugs are considered to be prescription medicines. It means that you can’t obtain them legally, if you don’t have any prescription from your treating doctor. Anabolic steroids belong to such medicines. It is illegal to purchase steroids without a prescription in several countries. Those that do it may be punished. They may be enforced to pay a fine and/or go to prison. Of course, a lot of persons seek methods to get and take these preparations without having legal problems.
Anabolic steroids are widely abused. Many sportspersons and bodybuilders apply these products not for medical purposes but for performance-enhancing effects. If they live in countries where these drugs can’t be purchased legally without prescriptions, they find several ways to mask their illegal purchase and administration. Sportspersons, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their doctors to prescribe them these products, as if they had medical needs to administer them. So, several doctors promote selling anabolic steroids to those who abuse them. Here is a case.
Peter Grant, an Australian doctor, prescribed steroids to 14 individuals during 9 years. Medical state of these patients didn’t require application of these drugs. Thus, the doctor was accused of improper practicing medicine. For example, he recommended to a patient administering such medications, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to prescribe these medications to this individual. Furthermore, these preparations were recommended him during 9 years.
The health care provider Peter Grant acknowledged that certain 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 acted. So, he supervised the patients who took anabolic steroids.
Taking these factors in consideration, it is possible to confirm that the health care provider Peter Grant was better known by those who administered steroids for performance-enhancing effects than by those who had to be cured from several health troubles. Peter Grant confirmed that he knew that steroids were bought by his patients just for personal usage.
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 properly. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for one year. Moreover, the judge claimed that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.