Charlie Teo accused of giving ‘opportunistically untruthful’ evidence

Controversial neurosurgeon’s claim a patient’s husband was ‘hoodwinked’ into making a complaint against him showed ‘lack of empathy’, inquiry also told

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The controversial neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has been accused of giving “opportunistically untruthful” evidence to a medical disciplinary board as well as lacking empathy and insight.

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 they never recovered and died soon after.

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