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Doctor accused of wrongly removing patient’s spleen at Hong Kong hospital insists it was ‘not a blunder’

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A doctor accused of mistakenly removing a patient’s spleen has claimed he acted correctly to save the woman’s life.The urologist, whose surname is Teoh, denied the operation was a medical blunder despite the Department of Health describing the organ as wrongly extracted.He told the Post 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.The incident, which happened…

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