SINGAPORE – General practitioner Wee Teong Boo, 71, who was in 2020 acquitted of raping a patient was struck off the register on Monday for overprescribing cough mixture and depressant drugs known as benzodiazepines. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Dr Wee’s professional misconduct involved 10 patients, including two senior citizens and a minor.
The Singapore Medical Council appealed to the Court of Three Judges to increase the period of suspension. The appeal was first heard in November 2022. The disciplinary proceedings arose over a complaint the SMC received from the Ministry of Health in October 2016. Some of the patients had underlying drug-dependency issues, and the inappropriate prescriptions may have intensified their addictions, said the three-member tribunal.
One patient was a woman in her 60s, identified as P15, who saw Dr Wee on 23 occasions between Dec 14, 2014, and Nov 11, 2016. Dr Wee inappropriately prescribed Dhasedyl, a codeine-containing cough mixture, within four days of the last prescription of codeine-containing cough mixture, on 36 occasions.
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