Bonds' physician Dr. Arthur Ting, falls under suspicion

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review carries a very interesting piece on Barry Bonds' interactions with Victor Conte.  Meant to cast doubt on the steroid/PED testing in Conte's operation that might be used in the Bonds' perjury case, the AP says that Conte described the Bonds spectator gallery visiting the BALCO site:

According to Conte, himself a convicted steroids dealer, Bonds would visit the lab on Saturdays and after normal business hours with an entourage that included his trainer, Greg Anderson, and his personal physician, Dr. Arthur Ting.

Ting's name came up in BALCO before.  The SF Chronicle mentioned Ting in the Bonds/BALCO affair:

Dr. Arthur Ting, the physician who treated Bonds for the knee injury that sidelined him for most of the 2005 season, has been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury in U.S. District Court in San Francisco later this month, according to two sources familiar with the investigation.

Ting accompanied Bonds to BALCO, for steroid and biological parameter testing.  Obviously Ting knew something about Bonds' use of steroids and PEDs.  Either Ting knew of Bonds' PED use, or Ting exhibited  incredible ignorance.

Chronicle reporters Williams and Fainaru-Wada discuss Ting:

Dr. Arthur Ting, Bonds' orthopedic surgeon, also testified before the grand jury investigating Bonds, as did two former Giants team trainers, Stan Conte and Mark Letendre. Investigators got a subpoena to obtain the Giants' medical records on Bonds.

Ting has been Bonds' orthopedist for nearly a decade, performing knee and elbow operations. Ting is acquainted with Anderson, according to sources who know him, and has visited BALCO. Letendre, the team's trainer at Candlestick Park, and Conte, who was trainer after the Giants moved to AT&T Park, are familiar with how Bonds' musculature increased in recent years.

Obviously a physician like Ting knows much about steroids; also obviously Ting was not going with Bonds and Anderson to BALCO for donuts.  Ting could be a very important witness in building the case that Barry Bonds lied to federal prosecutors in the BALCO investigation.

Ting is a fellow who came to the attention of the California medical board twice before; once because of his dispensing dangerous drugs to friends and athletes.  Ting's two sons, walk-ons for USC football, suddenly quit the team last year under suspicions of juicing.

The Chronicle reported on Ting in 2005:

Ting's current probation stems from a complaint filed in 2003 with the Medical Board of California. Among the allegations in that complaint, according to documents obtained by The Chronicle, were charges of improperly prescribing drugs to patients who were not properly documented in the doctor's files. Documents filed May 6, 2003, accuse Ting of prescribing drugs to "friends and acquaintances, particularly athletes".

Prescribing to friends, particularly athletes?  Hmmm, might those prescriptions include anabolic steroids?  Connect the dots.

Comments

[Mike]

I believe his sons were football players at USC a couple years back and both failed steroid tests and soon-after "retired" from the team.

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