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Holy Crap!
This is the surgeon who was just on MTV's True Life episode - he's the one who did that jerky guy's chicken cutlet calf implants!
Ex-doctor from Long Island in murder-suicide
BY JOHN VALENTI
[email protected]
12:16 PM EST, February 14, 2008
In a story line straight out of the TV show "Nip / Tuck," a controversial former plastic surgeon from Long Island who was forced to relinquish his medical license after illegally dispensing steroids, growth hormones, Viagra and other drugs, shot his wife to death in their Los Angeles home -- then turned the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide earlier this month, police said.
Police said Bruce J. Nadler, who billed himself as "The World's Strongest Plastic Surgeon," once counted professional and amateur bodybuilders from across the nation as his clientele and who wrote a book called "The Nip Tuck Workout: Exercise through the Eyes of a Plastic Surgeon," shot and killed his wife Terri on Saturday, Feb. 2, then shot himself to death. Both were 61.
The two were found dead in their home at 200 South Detroit St. in the Park La Brea section of Los Angeles by police from the Los Angeles Police Department's Wilshire Division, who were responding to reports of gunshots fired.
Police are calling it a murder-suicide.
It was a troubling end to a life that had spiraled downward in recent years.
Records indicate the New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct limited Nadler's license -- and placed him on five years' probation -- in October 1999 and then revoked his license to practice in August 2005.
In the 1999 decision, Nadler acknowledges his address as 267 Middle Country Rd., Smithtown -- and says of the nine charges of professional misconduct brought against him by the board: "I do not contest the specifications," adding that he agrees to be the subject of "censure and reprimand" and be placed by the board on a period of five years probation.
In the 2005 case, Nadler was charged with failure to obtain the complete medical history of a patient, failure to obtain appropriate and necessary medical laboratory studies, failure to properly diagnose conditions or causal disorders and with dispensing "various medications" -- including anabolic steroids, substituted testosterone agents and specific drugs such as Nolvadex, Proscar, Clomid, Tomoxifen, Vicodin, AndrogelRitalin and Viagra -- "without accepted medical indication and/or justification."
As a result of the case, Nadler agreed that his license to practice medicine "shall be limited" and that the agreement would "preclude patient contact and any practice of medicine, clinical or otherwise."
A condition of the agreement is that Nadler would also be precluded from "diagnosing, treating, operating, or prescribing for any human disease, pain, injury, deformity, or physical condition." His career as he knew it was over.
It was a hard fall from grace for Nadler, once a competitive bodybuilder with a Park Avenue practice, who had been featured in stories in Penthouse, Cosmopolitan and Maxim, among others, as well as on MTV, VH-1 and The Discovery Channel. Despite the title of his book, Nadler apparently had no ties to the hit show "Nip / Tuck" and had even criticized it in a 2004 interview, saying: "I think the media in general, with shows like 'Extreme Makeover' and 'Nip and Tuck,' are using the public's fascination with plastic surgery to get ratings for themselves."
Nevertheless, Nadler's life could certainly have been a featured episode on the show.
In the 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, according to stories, bodybuilders from all over the country came to Nadler for cosmetic surgery to enhance their proportions and symmetry.
His specialty was surgery to correct gynecomastia -- a condition that causes the enlargement of male breasts. It is a condition common to steroid users, medical experts say, but not exclusive to them.
Through surgical procedures, Nadler reduced the enlarged breasts. He claimed to have performed about 100 of such operations each year out of an office in Smithtown -- even while he was on probation by the medical board.
Accounts on bodybuilding Web site message boards in the wake of his suicide acclaim Nadler as a one-time legend in the field. Stories talk of him performing posterior implants while listening to a blare of heavy metal rock music, and the woman featured on the cover of his book was Ann Markley, a one-time runner-up on "America's Next Top Model."
In a Web site biography, Nadler continued to refer to himself in recent years as a "world-renowned cosmetic plastic surgeon and personal trainer" who had retired from medical practice -- and now specialized in personal workout regimes.
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