A doctor with a weight loss clinic in Panama City has been arrested, along with three others, for prescribing medication without performing a medical exam.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Department of Health announced today that 46 year old Dr. Stephen Duncan, the owner of Resolutions Weight Loss and the Men's Center of Tallahassee is charged with nine counts of writing prescriptions for controlled substances with no medical necessity.

An investigation revealed Dr. Duncan was prescribing Phendimetrazine, a schedule three controlled stimulant used to manage weight loss, to patients he had not medically examined.

He wrote those prescriptions from his Tallahassee office for patients visiting his clinics in Panama City, Orlando, Jacksonville, and Chattahoochee... As well as in Georgia and North Carolina.