- Mark Carroll suffers symptoms of fatal brain disease
- He has turned to the famous doctor who was
Legendary rugby league player Mark ‘Spudd’ Carroll has hired controversial surgeon Dr Charlie Teo to help treat his degenerative brain disease, despite being banned from operating on patients.
Carroll, 57, signed up for brain testing last year after watching a devastating show about South great Mario Fenech’s tragic battle with dementia, and said his neurologist later told him he had the degenerative brain disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
CTE, which is associated with exposure to repeated head trauma, causes memory loss, confusion, depression, and progressive dementia, and can only be properly diagnosed after death.
Carroll has now enlisted the services of controversial and famous neurosurgeon Dr. Charlie Teo to help treat his condition.
Dr Teo was banned from performing surgeries in Australia without written permission in July last year after the Medical Professional Standards Committee found him guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct.
The decision followed findings by the Healthcare Complaints Commission (HCCC) that Dr Teo failed to adequately inform two of his patients about the risks involved with ‘experimental’ operations. from which they failed to recover.
Dr Teo was well known for performing operations that other doctors would not attempt on patients sentenced to death due to “inoperable” brain tumors.
Under Dr. Teo’s supervision, Carroll undergoes transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with a psychiatrist.
Mark Carroll (pictured) has given an update on his fight against the degenerative brain disease CTE, which has been linked to the deaths of football players.
Controversial neurosurgeon Dr Charlie Teo (pictured) will help Carroll in the biggest health battle he has ever faced.
It involves targeting areas of the brain linked to depression and anxiety with magnetic pulses and was previously found to relieve symptoms for up to three months.
The procedure does not violate Teo’s ban because it is non-invasive and does not require surgery.
The procedure is expected to help with Carroll’s anxiety, which is believed to be a symptom of CTE.
“If we can treat their anxiety and depression, the knock-on effect will hopefully be that their speech improves as well,” Teo said. A current issue.
While Teo can no longer operate in Australia, he is now interested in helping people with other types of brain conditions.
Carroll (pictured playing for NSW), one of the toughest players to ever take the field, is doing everything he can to improve his mental health.
Carroll (pictured with his daughter) is not worried about working with Dr. Teo
“Despite what some people think, I like helping people and I love helping people with a brain disorder,” Teo said.
“So if I can’t help people with a brain tumor, then, you know, wouldn’t it be great if I could help a lot of people with other brain disorders, like Spudd, people with depression, anxiety, strokes, and I really do.” I’m enjoying it.”
“I love Australians and would love to be able to help them with brain injuries or problems, even if I can’t help them with brain tumours.”
Carroll is more than happy to work with Teo, despite his past.
“He saved a friend of mine…I would do it any day with him,” Carroll said.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CELEBRITY SURGEON CHARLIE TEO
December 24, 1957 – Charlie Teo born in Sydney, son of Chinese-Singaporean immigrants
1981 – Graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Medicine and a Sydney Bachelor’s degree after their education at Sydney’s elite Scots College.
1982 onwards – works in general neurosurgery at Sydney Royal Prince Alfred Hospital before moving to the US for 10 years, working in Dallas, Texas and Arkansas, becoming Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Head of Pediatric Neurosurgery.
1990s – Teo returns to Australia to work at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney and founds the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation and the Charlie Teo Foundation.
2000 – His fame spreads and he becomes a regular on television and the social pages of newspapers.
2011 – He is awarded the Member of the Order of Australia for services to medicine as a neurosurgeon.
Charlie Teo returned to Australia in the 1990s to work at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital and founded the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation and the Charlie Teo Foundation.
2019 – Urologist Henry Woo goes public with his concerns about Mr Teo’s work and the number of GoFundMe campaigns raising money to fund his surgery, prompting a series of newspaper articles, television investigations and complaints.
2021 – The NSW Medical Council held a special hearing on Mr Teo which banned him from performing operations with special written approval from an experienced neurosurgeon, which he says he has been unable to obtain due to onerous restrictions imposed by the approving surgeon.
August 2021 – Health Care Complaints Commission launches investigation into two more complaints
September 2022 – HCCC hearing planned but postponed
October 2022 – Three new complaints are filed against Mr. Teo before the HCCC
February 13, 2023 – Dr Teo faced the HCCC over five complaints
July 12, 2023 – Found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct.