In the end,hubris and vanity effectively cost the controversial neurosurgeon his career in Australia.
The controversial neurosurgeon has been reprimanded by a professional standards committee following catastrophic outcomes for two of his patients.
The embattled neurosurgeon says fellow doctors and journalists are out to get him. But he has support from ‘the number one politician in Australia’.
The controversial neurosurgeon is set to hit the celebrity speaker circuit spruiking dubious medical theories,including linking brain cancer to mobile phone usage.
The embattled neurosurgeon says he was driving Ubers to get by. But he still had a spare $10,000 for the underworld identity’s charity.
When it came to support for the neurosurgeon at a disciplinary hearing,the chasm between his patients and his peers could not have been more vast.
Not a single neurosurgeon in Australia or New Zealand has provided a letter of support for the embattled Sydney doctor,a disciplinary inquiry has heard.
The neurosurgeon gave untruthful evidence and “opportunistically” made up evidence or changed it as a disciplinary hearing unfolded,it has been claimed.
The neurosurgeon told a disciplinary hearing the only error he made was that it was witnessed by the patient’s daughter.
A disciplinary hearing has heard that a missing MRI scan has now been found amid a testy exchange over whether the prominent neurosurgeon cut too far into a patient’s brain.
Were Charlie Teo’s patients and their families cognisant of the real risks they took when they paid up to go under his knife?