SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds' three recent knee operations were performed by a prominent doctor who has a history of troubles with state medical authorities.
Dr. Arthur J. Ting has been reprimanded twice by the Medical Board of California, and currently is on probation for unprofessional conduct, the Arizona Republic reported Thursday.
Ting, the team physician for the NHL's San Jose Sharks who has treated many prominent Bay Area athletes, completed his first probation in 1998. According to the newspaper, Ting was placed on five years' probation on April 5, 2004, because of a second incident of unprofessional conduct.
A medical board spokeswoman didn't immediately return a phone call Thursday from The Associated Press.
Ting has performed three operations on Bonds' troublesome left knee since January. On Monday, Ting performed an emergency surgery to clean out a bacterial infection in Bonds' knee, according to the San Francisco Giants slugger's Web site, where he releases the only available updates on his condition.
According to documents obtained by the Republic, a complaint to the medical board in May 2003 alleged that Ting employed an unlicensed technician who saw patients and wrote prescriptions. Many patients believed the technician was a doctor.
The complaint also accused Ting of prescribing "dangerous drugs and controlled substances to friends and acquaintances, particularly athletes, for whom he kept no medical records or for whom the medical records were fictitious, inadequate or inaccurate."
Ting signed an agreement with the board on Jan. 4, 2004, acknowledging he "was negligent in his supervision of subordinates," but he denied all other allegations in the complaint.
Ting was ordered to pay for the $15,000 investigation. The board revoked his license, but stayed the revocation while he served five years' probation.
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