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Suspension for surgeon over three charges
Two-year penalty was halved because of time it took medical council to settle the case
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Among the charges Dr Foo Chee Boon was guilty of was not sending a patient to intensive care when her condition deteriorated.
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A surgeon has been suspended for a year after he overdosed a patient, then did not send her to intensive care when her condition deteriorated. The patient, who was having her uterus, cervix, ovaries and fallopian tubes removed, died.
The penalty would have been a two-year suspension, but it was halved because of the time it took the Singapore Medical Council to settle the case. The surgeon was told in 2014 that a complaint had been filed against him, but the hearing started only in 2018.
