[FONT="]Accused doctor Anish Singh was the physician of choice for a string of bodybuilders — including a multiple national champion — who were prescribed steroids for no purpose other than to bulk up, a disciplinary hearing was told yesterday.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Anish Dwarka Singh and his former Empire Clinic have been under scrutiny at the State Administrative Tribunal for the past two weeks, with the Medical Board of Australia applying to either suspend or cancel Dr Singh’s licence to practise.
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[FONT="]At the hearings, the identities of several WA personalities, models and crime figures have been revealed as being prescribed human growth hormones, performance enhancing substances or EPOs and testosterone, among others.[/FONT]
[FONT="]During closing submissions yesterday, medical board lawyers said a large portion of Dr Singh’s patient list were body builders who were prescribed the drugs for no therapeutic reason. The hearing was told one was a senior figure in the bodybuilding industry, whose name cannot be published due to a suppression order protecting the identity of Dr Singh’s patients.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Barrister Hylton Quail said some of Dr Singh’s explanations as to why he prescribed the drugs “beggared belief”, including a claim he gave one man anabolic steroids to stop him taking them from the black market.[/FONT]
[FONT="]One expert witness at the hearing said this was akin to giving “alcohol to an alcoholic ... trading off health with the satisfaction of the patient”.
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[FONT="]Dr Singh is also accused of faking a medical certificate, giving human growth hormone to diabetic patients, failing to keep proper notes and carrying out expensive bone density scans only as a source of income.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dr Singh denied he had done harm in his reply yesterday.[/FONT]
[FONT="]“The idea that one drug can have one effect is simply wrong,” Dr Singh said.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Anish Dwarka Singh and his former Empire Clinic have been under scrutiny at the State Administrative Tribunal for the past two weeks, with the Medical Board of Australia applying to either suspend or cancel Dr Singh’s licence to practise.
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[FONT="]At the hearings, the identities of several WA personalities, models and crime figures have been revealed as being prescribed human growth hormones, performance enhancing substances or EPOs and testosterone, among others.[/FONT]
[FONT="]During closing submissions yesterday, medical board lawyers said a large portion of Dr Singh’s patient list were body builders who were prescribed the drugs for no therapeutic reason. The hearing was told one was a senior figure in the bodybuilding industry, whose name cannot be published due to a suppression order protecting the identity of Dr Singh’s patients.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Barrister Hylton Quail said some of Dr Singh’s explanations as to why he prescribed the drugs “beggared belief”, including a claim he gave one man anabolic steroids to stop him taking them from the black market.[/FONT]
[FONT="]One expert witness at the hearing said this was akin to giving “alcohol to an alcoholic ... trading off health with the satisfaction of the patient”.
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[FONT="]Dr Singh is also accused of faking a medical certificate, giving human growth hormone to diabetic patients, failing to keep proper notes and carrying out expensive bone density scans only as a source of income.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dr Singh denied he had done harm in his reply yesterday.[/FONT]
[FONT="]“The idea that one drug can have one effect is simply wrong,” Dr Singh said.[/FONT]
