Charlie Teo

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".

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 ...

"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 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 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.