GP banned for prescribing drugs to patients he never met

The regional doctor was given generous incentives to sign scripts prepared by a company that marketed bodybuilding drugs, reveals tribunal

A GP who signed scripts for performance-enhancing drugs for patients he had never seen, in exchange for payment, has been banned for four months.

The regional doctor was working in a skin clinic when another medic he worked with said he would be “paid generously” if he became the prescribing doctor for a company that marketed peptides and other compounds to bodybuilders.