Australian doctor was suspended for improper practice of medicine

Several doctors abuse their position, prescribing drugs that don’t correspond to medical needs of patients. Why does it happen? It is known that certain medications 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 medications. It is illegal to buy steroids without a prescription in certain countries. Those that do it may be punished. They may be sentenced to prison and/or fine. Of course, a lot of individuals are looking for ways to get and use these products without having legal troubles.
Anabolic steroids are often abused. A lot of sportspersons and bodybuilders take these products not for medical needs but for increase of performance. If they live in countries where these medicines can’t be bought legally without prescriptions, they find certain ways to mask their illegal purchase and usage. Sportspeople, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their health care providers to prescribe them these preparations, as if they had clinical needs to take them. Thus, certain health care providers 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 individuals didn’t require application of these products. Thus, the doctor was accused of improper practicing medicine. For example, he recommended to a patient taking such products, 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 preparations were prescribed him during nine years.
The health care provider Peter Grant acknowledged that some 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. Thus, he supervised the patients who took anabolic steroids.
Taking these factors into account, it is possible to state that the health care provider Peter Grant was better known by those that applied steroids for enhancement of performance than by those who had to be treated from some health troubles. Peter Grant claimed that he knew that steroids were purchased by his patients only for personal intake.
When the physician appeared in the court, the judge affirmed that the doctor promoted selling steroids. The judge confirmed that Peter Grant had to be punished properly. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for a year. Furthermore, the judge confirmed that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.