Not a single neurosurgeon in Australia or New Zealand has provided a letter of support for embattled neurosurgeon Charlie Teo, his disciplinary inquiry has heard.
Ten overseas neurosurgeons had offered letters of support for Teo but when he sought support from one Australian and one New Zealand neurosurgeon he received no reply, the inquiry heard.Kate Richardson, SC, representing the Health Care Complaints Commission, submitted to a four-person Professional Standards Committee that Teo should be reprimanded and have further conditions placed on his medical certificate as a result of catastrophic outcomes on two of his patients.
The supervising neurosurgeon had to be satisfied Teo had explained to the patient “all material risks” and had obtained “informed financial consent” from his patient. Hutchings said it would be “wholly inappropriate” for the committee to reject any evidence that Teo has given unless it was corroborated, as the commission has asked. He said that the blanket rejection of his evidence was “plainly an untenable position”.
The inquiry has heard from experts that the brain stem tumours of two patients he operated on were ones in which the risks far outweighed any benefits. Both patients were in a vegetative state following surgery and later died.
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