Charlie Teo

2023 - 3 - 27

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Charlie Teo hearing hears bid to extend restrictions on ... (ABC News)

The Health Care Complaints Commission is attempting to extend the restrictions on Charlie Teo's medical licence, claiming the neurosurgeon isn't credible ...

It's not through malpractice. It's not through neglect. "It's not through malice. The West Australian woman's husband told the hearings last month, Dr Teo had indicated he would stick to one side of his wife's brain during the operation, to avoid a "terrible outcome". In closing submissions, she told the panel Dr Teo's witness statement indicates he told one of the patients, a woman in her 40s from Western Australia, that her tumour was "tectal" — in the roof of the brain stem. - The hearing was told Dr Teo was not a credible witness

Charlie Teo should be 'rejected as a witness of credit', hearing told (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Embattled neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has given deliberately untruthful evidence and should be “rejected as a witness of credit”, his disciplinary hearing has ...

Before surgery, Teo had explained his surgical plan was to preserve the left-hand side of the woman’s brain and not cross the brain’s midline. Richardson submitted that Teo would have known this as soon as he saw the MRI. [Kate McClymont](/by/kate-mcclymont-hvede)is chief investigative reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via Her husband’s evidence was that Teo said to him, “I thought I knew where the line was”. Another, associate professor Andrew Morokoff, told the inquiry there were “no guidelines, statistical or medical literature” to support Teo’s decision to operate on the woman. The woman failed to regain consciousness and died in March.

'Millimetre' mistake may have cost patient: Charlie Teo (The Maitland Mercury)

High-profile neurosurgeon Charlie Teo says if he cut into the brain just a millimetre too far it could...

"I think that I've probably gone across the midline ... "This patient could have died at any time. "I agree I took out a bad part of the right frontal lobe that caused the deficit." Dr Teo said in conducting a partial right frontal lobectomy on the woman it was likely he unknowingly removed a part of the brain that was crucial to her functioning. "I think in fact I've been too aggressive," Dr Teo said of his surgery on the first woman. Ms Richardson accused Dr Teo of being "opportunistically untruthful" throughout the hearing in regards to the risks involved with the surgery and how he conveyed that to the patient, arguing he should be "rejected as a witness of credit".

Charlie Teo accused of lacking empathy, insight (South Coast Register)

Dr Teo appeared before a Health Care Complaints Commission inquiry in Sydney on Tuesday to defend brain tumour surgeries he performed on two women, from which ...

Teo's evidence 'opportunistically untruthful' (NEWS.com.au)

Charlie Teo has been accused of being “opportunistically and deliberately untruthful” in his evidence to a medical inquiry into two catastrophic surgeries.

The HCCC is seeking further restrictions on Dr Teo’s medical registration as a result of this inquiry. But he told the inquiry he had proven that he did not take out the whole frontal lobe, only part of it. She added that two other experts said the benefits did not outweigh the risks. “He had made it clear that it was a disaster – that he didn’t know where the line was and he cut on the other side of the brain and cut the wrong side,” the man said. “Sure, there was tumour here and here – the size of specimen was said to be 8cm,” he said, pointing to the scan. She claimed Dr then “made up” that he had told them there was a 100 per cent risk of paralysis, after seeing the number “100” scribbled on the patient husband‘s notepad after the fact.

High-profile neurosurgeon Charlie Teo faces questions at health ... (9News)

High-profile neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has faced questions at a Health Care Complaints Commission disciplina...

Teo has the support of a number of past patients and they have been vocal throughout this hearing process, but the court was largely empty today. Today, the doctor was at times firm in his defence of the way he carried out the disputed surgeries, and said he believed the husband of one patient was coerced into making a complaint. He denied carrying out an operation that overstepped the bounds of the consent he had gained from that patient and her husband but admitted the operation was much more extensive than planned.

How Charlie Teo reacts as his life's work is torn apart in front of his ... (Daily Mail)

Charlie Teo arrived at his disciplinary hearing in Sydney for the seventh day on Tuesday to a crowd of adoring fans holding homemade posters.

When talking about Patient B, he was able to show the breadth of the tumour and the extent to which it was compromising her brain. He then explained the pressure the tumour created on her brain meant the middle of her brain had shifted by 11mm, known as a midline shift. In Patient A, he was accused of operating beyond the midline of her brain and irreparably damaging her. '[11mm] is a sign of impending death,' he said. Outside the hearing, Dr Teo said: 'I don’t think my colleagues will ever let me operate again. One woman left the hearing early because she was upset. He was able to show where Patient A's tumour was in the brain, and showed the tumour did go beyond the midline of the brain and he therefore tried to remove it. Supporters are pictured on Tuesday He is pictured with fiancee Traci Griffiths In Patient B, he was accused of removing chunks of healthy brain tissue and leaving most of the tumour behind. Ms Richardson referred to various moments during the hearing where Dr Teo said Patient A's tumour was a tectal tumour - a slow-growing tumour at the roof of the brain stem - but later changed his evidence. At another stage, Dr Teo was so irritated that he and Ms Richardson talked over each other - to the point were the chairperson of the committee presiding over the hearing, Jennifer Boland, had to intervene.

Charlie Teo accused of lacking empathy, insight (The Maitland Mercury)

Dr Teo appeared before a Health Care Complaints Commission inquiry in Sydney on Tuesday to defend brain tumour surgeries he performed on two women, from which ...

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