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Doctor fined $25,000 for illegally copying confidential information of 7,654 patients
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The High Court allowed Dr Goh Pui Kiat to keep the information of patients who had followed him to his new clinic, but ordered that the rest be deleted.
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SINGAPORE - A doctor has been fined $25,000, censured and ordered to pay the cost of the disciplinary hearing against him for illegally copying the confidential information of 7,654 patients.
The ruling by a Singapore Medical Council (SMC) disciplinary tribunal followed a High Court case in 2016 in which Dr Goh Pui Kiat was found guilty. The case was brought by his former partners, a fellow doctor and the doctor's wife, on behalf of a company which they along with Dr P. K. Goh and his wife jointly owned.
