Australian doctor practiced medicine improperly 9 years

Certain physician abuse their position, prescribing medicines that don’t meet criteria of clinical needs of patients. Why do they do it? It is known that several drugs are considered to be prescription drugs. 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 drugs. It is illegal to buy steroids without a prescription in some countries. Those that do it may be punished. They may be sentenced to prison and/or fine. Undoubtedly, a lot of individuals are looking for ways to buy and administer these medications without having legal troubles.
Anabolic steroids are frequently abused. Many athletes and bodybuilders apply these medicines not for medical needs but for increase of performance. If they live in countries where these drugs can’t be bought legally without prescriptions, they find some ways to mask their illicit purchase and application. Sportspeople, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their doctors to prescribe them these products, as if they had clinical needs to apply them. Thus, some doctors induce selling anabolic steroids to those who abuse them. Here is a case.
Peter Grant, an Australian health care provider, recommended steroids to 14 patients during nine years. Medical state of these persons didn’t require application of these drugs. So, the doctor was accused of inappropriate practicing medicine. For example, he recommended to a patient applying such preparations, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to prescribe these drugs to this man. Furthermore, these drugs were recommended him during 9 years.
The doctor Peter Grant acknowledged that several patients were competing. Thus, he prescribed them steroids. He also admitted to studying scientific literature about anabolic steroids. He confirmed that he knew how steroids acted. Thus, he supervised the patients that took anabolic steroids.
Taking these aspects into account, it is possible to state that the physician Peter Grant was better known by those that administered steroids for performance-enhancing effects than by those who had to be treated from several health troubles. Peter Grant affirmed that he knew that steroids were purchased by his patients only for personal use.
When the physician appeared in the court, the judge confirmed that the physician induced selling steroids. The judge added that Peter Grant had to be punished appropriately. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for 12 months. Furthermore, the judge claimed that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.