TCM practitioner suspended, fined after man complains treatments caused his nose 'to deviate'

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SINGAPORE: A Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner has been suspended for a year and fined S$5,000 after a patient claimed that ...

NOT ACCEPTED FORM OF TCM TREATMENT

Mr Ang admitted to the committee that he had failed to carry out an adequate assessment of the patient’s condition and a clinical examination during the consultations. The patient's medical record showed"an absence of any such observations and findings", the committee added. "By failing to use appropriate and accepted forms of TCM treatment, Mr Ang had exposed the complainant to the risk of possible harm and injury," the committee wrote in its findings.When the committee asked whether TCM or western medicine was used in the treatment, and to provide a picture of the instrument he had used in the treatment, Mr Ang refused to answer.

He had refused to cooperate with the investigations and did not answer questions during the committee's inquiry.

 

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