![]() The HCCC's Professional Standards Committee is considering whether restrictions currently preventing Dr Teo from operating in Australia without written consent should be extended or removed.īarrister Kate Richardson SC - who is representing the HCCC - cross-examined Dr Teo about comments he made last week to the media that one of the complainants had been "hoodwinked" and "coerced" into lodging a complaint.ĭr Teo has told the hearing the man's original complaint was about the difficulty in repatriating his comatose wife from Sydney to Western Australia where she lived, not about his conduct as a surgeon. The woman who had likened Dr Teo to "God" was left in a vegetative state after the operation, and died about a month later. In the meantime, Teo is acquainting himself with the work of right-wing cancel culture types. Was that my intention? Absolutely not. I didn't try and hurt her. Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo feels he’s a victim of Australia’s tall poppy syndrome.Nick Moir High-profile supporters, including boxer Anthony Mundine and former test cricket captain Steve Waugh, turned up at Teo’s hearing this week to show support. "It wasn't negligence. Maybe some ignorance on my behalf but certainly not negligence. I took out the wrong bit of the frontal lobe," Dr Teo admitted in evidence on Monday. Three neurosurgeons gave evidence last week that the operation was "excessive", and explained why the woman never woke from surgery.ĭr Teo was cross-examined about his decision to take out a chunk of his former patient's frontal lobe while removing her brain tumour. Outside the hearing, Teo told media the slap was a “kinder and gentler” alternative to other more common techniques for rousing patients.Appearing before the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC), the 65-year-old has continued giving evidence on day five of a disciplinary hearing into his conduct with two patients. The patient was left essentially in a vegetative state following the operation intended to extend her life expectancy by several months. Teo was restrained by the NSW Medical Council in August 2021 from operating without the approval of another doctor after an investigation by the state’s health care complaints commission.Īccording to a list of factual assumptions produced at the hearing on Wednesday, Teo slapped one of the patients across the face in front of family members in an attempt to rouse her after surgery. “You’d have nothing else to do other than have neurosurgeons in your commission if that was the line you took.” ![]() “I think every brain surgeon in the country would be guilty of not declaring they take out normal brain tissue when they remove a brain tumour,” D’Urso said. On Wednesday, neurology experts Andrew Morokoff, Bryant Stokes and Paul D’Urso told the inquiry it was common during the course of operations to remove healthy brain tissue without first informing the patient. “One might even raise the question (of) whether you should go ahead with a procedure like that.” “For many people, the risk of profound neurological deficit would be even more concerning than death,” Komesaroff said. Charlie is a father to four beautiful daughters and supports the rights of girls and young women in impoverished countries such as Cambodia and India through various charities including his own Teo Family Foundation. Ryan said consent could be derived from one session but patients needed to be given sufficient time to weigh matters to their own satisfaction.Ĭounsel for the HCCC Kate Richardson SC asked the experts whether it should be disclosed if the risk of neurological deficit or death from a procedure was between 30 and 50 per cent. Medical consent experts Paul Komesaroff and Chris Ryan told the hearing on Thursday that risk needed to be conveyed to patients to allow them to make informed consent. A disciplinary hearing into the conduct of Charlie Teo (left) has probed whether two patients adequately consented to surgeries from which they never recovered. In one of the cases, Teo told the patient if she didn’t have surgery by the following Tuesday she would be “f***ing dead by Friday”, her husband told the hearing.ĭuring the early 2019 surgery, the woman received a frontal lobectomy in which a significant portion of her brain was removed - something her husband told the committee was not disclosed before the operation. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus > ![]()
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