Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo told a patient that unless she had surgery on the next Tuesday she would be “dead by Friday”, her husband has told a disciplinary hearing. The woman, who died in March 2019, did not wake up after surgery that Teo performed in Oc...
Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo told a patient that unless she had surgery on the next Tuesday she would be “f---ing dead by Friday”, her husband has told a disciplinary hearing.Her husband, who cannot be identified, was giving evidence on the second day of a Health Care Complaints Commission’s professional standards committee inquiry into two allegations of unsatisfactory conduct by Teo including that he did not sufficiently inform patients about the risks of their surgeries.
He denied suggestions put to him by Teo’s barrister Matthew Hutchings that he and his wife fully understood the high risk of Teo’s attempt to resect her tumour.Instead, the only risks Teo raised were that his wife may be paralysed down one side and that she could suffer some memory loss.The husband agreed that the neurosurgeon had never promised he would save his wife: “He just said he would buy her time.
Kate Richardson SC, acting for HCCC, said Goyal provided a statement to a senior investigator at the commission in February 2020. In his first statement dated February 2020, Goyal wrote: “Charlie didn’t go into a lot of detail with Mr and Mrs [name suppressed]. However, I do specifically remember his emphasising how risky the surgery was and him telling them that the operation could leave [the woman] in a vegetative state.”Richardson challenged Goyal about his second statement in which he identified a “whole plethora of risks” that his mentor raised with the patient, despite not including them in his original statement.
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