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Neurosurgeon and NUH sued for alleged ‘medical negligence’

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The family lawyers allege that Mdm Goh 'has become irreversibly vegetative' since June 2014 'because the defendant doctor and hospital had woefully failed in their duties to the patient to manage her post-operative complications appropriately'.

The patient, Madam Goh Guan Sin, now 64, went to NUH in 2014 for a surgery to remove a large tumour at the back of her head that was compressing her brain stem. The surgery was performed by NUH’s head of neurosurgery Dr Yeo Tseng Tsai.

Eventually, though Mdm Goh survived, with the tumour successfully removed, but she has been in a vegetative state for about five years and remains at NUH. They also alleged that Dr Yeo had failed to advise Mdm Goh’s family about the treatment and management she was receiving.

 

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