Dr Charlie Teo patient nightmare: Les McNab is diagnosed with tumour four years after surgery and must fly to Singapore after neurosurgeon was effectively banned in Australia

The family of a brain cancer survivor has criticized medical authorities for denying their loved one another possible chance at life from ‘miracle surgeon’ Dr. Charlie Teo.

Nearly four years ago, Les McNab, then 58, was given six months to live after he was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor that was deemed inoperable.

However, Mr. McNab and his wife Jodie refused to give up hope and turned to Dr. Teo, who specializes in high-risk, high-reward surgeries that others won’t accept.

The tumor was successfully removed and Mr. McNab spent precious time with his family and even became a grandfather.

Since then, her cancer has returned and the family now faces the prospect of having to spend thousands of dollars to fly abroad for the operation.

Dr. Teo was found guilty of unsatisfactory conduct by the Professional Standards Committee in July, barring him from operating in Australia.

In a letter posted on social media, Ms McNab accused the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) of having “blood on her hands”.

“To the disgusting hyenas… with personal vendettas spreading false and misleading information about Dr. Charlie Teo,” he wrote.

‘Hang your heads in shame. HCCC you got it so wrong.

Australia is a free country? bulls ** t. Now we have been robbed of the right to have the best surgeon in Australia, if not the world, operate on Les in his own country.

“My husband’s only hope now is to be sent to a surgeon he’s never met and put his life in his hands. This has caused immense anxiety and stress for Les and me.

You all have blood on your hands. What you’ve done to Charlie is a national disgrace.

“People are literally dying when they could have been saved.”

The couple, who live in North Queensland, have found a surgeon in Singapore who is willing to operate under Dr Teo’s supervision. the daily telegraph informed.

Although Dr. Teo will offer his services free of charge, the operation will cost around $50,000 plus Ms. McNab’s accommodation and other travel expenses, a financial burden Mr. McNab says he is unwilling to place on his family.

‘You (HCCC) kept talking about Charlie’s costs (which were lies). It will now cost more for families to travel to other countries, which is out of reach for most families,” Ms. McNab wrote in her letter.

In placing restrictions on Dr. Teo, the HCCC found that he failed to adequately inform two of his patients about the risks associated with ‘experimental’ operations from which they did not recover and improperly charged a vulnerable patient $35,000.

The restrictions include that Dr. Teo needs to get permission from his colleagues before operating, forcing the controversial and colorful surgeon to admit that his career in Australia is almost over and he will have to operate abroad.

Dr Teo (pictured with wife Traci Griffiths) has been banned from operating in Australia for “misconduct”

Kellie-Anne Goodwin met Dr. Teo at age 21 when the brain cancer she had been battling since she was nine years old returned and was told by other doctors that it was inoperable.

Dr. Teo previously performed a complete resection on Mr. McMcNab, leaving him cancer-free for three years.

“(Les) has become a grandfather twice, he would have missed all this,” McNab told Channel Seven in October.

‘We live in a free country, we should be able to choose which surgeon we want to treat us.

It is our choice to take that risk. It is our choice to choose you as our doctor.

Mr. McNab is just the latest of the controversial neurosurgeon’s patients to step in and defend Dr. Teo.

Kellie-Anne Goodwin met Dr. Teo at age 21 when the brain cancer she had been battling since she was nine years old returned and was told by other doctors that it was inoperable.

Now in her late 30s, Ms Goodwin is confined to a wheelchair, but she told The Saturday Telegraph that she is extraordinarily grateful for the life Dr Teo has given her and that he will always “have her back.” “.

Her mother, Kathryn Fordham, told the newspaper that Kellie-Anne had “basically come back as a baby” after her first operations as a child and needed help relearning how to walk, talk and care for herself.

But he fought and graduated from high school only to have the cancer return in his early twenties when his oncologist told him there was nothing that could be done.

The couple raised money with the help of the local community and traveled to Sydney to seek the help of the neurosurgeon.

She said Dr. Teo clearly explained the risks to them, including that Kellie-Anne could lose significant brain function.