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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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0 5 - 0 2 - 2 0 0 5 Doctor fined, loses license over steroid prescriptions
By LEIGH HOPPER
Houston endocrinologist Michael Charles Scally was fined $190,000 and had his license revoked Friday by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners for improperly prescribing steroids.
The fine is the second-largest in the history of the medical board. The medical board based its decision in the Scally case on the medical records of eight patients treated in the mid-1990s to 2001. The patients included weight lifters, bodybuilders and a professional fighter who were taking steroids.
Scally, who practiced at 8707 Katy Freeway, said he was running a sort of detox program for steroid users. His patients came to him, he said earlier this week, because they were suffering steroid side effects such as hair loss, decreased libido and erectile dysfunction.
He called the medical board's treatment of him "heavy-handed, biased and unfair ... I've never done anything to hurt a patient. Every one of my patients got better."
However, the board found Scally, 52, diagnosed hormone abnormalities without ruling out other possible causes for patient symptoms.
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