The urologist, whose surname is Teoh, denied the operation was a medical blunder despite the Department of Health describing the organ as wrongly extracted.it was incorrectly listed as a mistake because the private hospital refused to modify an operation record after he noticed an urgent problem and performed the unplanned splenectomy.by the department on Wednesday.
During the operation, he said, he noticed bruising on the patient’s peritoneum, a sign of a possible problem in the spleen. “I felt what I did was a life-saving operation for the patient,” he said, adding that a surgery consent form had stated that a doctor could perform operations on any other part deemed to be affecting a patient’s health.
Teoh said the hospital reported the case as a medical blunder to the Department of Health after it found that the organ specimen he later sent to the lab was different to what had been originally stated in a form signed before the operation. “That’s why the [lab test] report said it was a kidney surgery but in fact it was a spleen removal,” he said.
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