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 "the world's strongest plastic surgeon" and once counted professional and amateur bodybuilders from across the nation as his clientele, shot and killed his wife, Terri, on Feb. 2, then shot himself to death. Both were 61.
Evidence at the scene made it clear that Nadler fired the first round, then turned the gun on himself, Los Angeles Police Department Det. John Shafia said.
In October 1999, Nadler's license was suspended and he was placed on 5 years' probation, New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct records show. The board revoked his license in August 2005.
In the 1999 decision, Nadler, who lived in Smithtown at the time, did not contest nine charges of professional misconduct brought against him.
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, Tamoxifen, Vicodin, Androgel, Ritalin and Viagra - "without accepted medical indication and/ or justification."
