False Hope? There's No Such Thing | Charlie Teo | TEDxSydney
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2015
- Controversial neurosurgeon Dr Charlie Teo looks to his patients to understand the meaning of hope.
Charlie Teo is an inspirational neurosurgeon, pushing the boundaries to the point where the medical fraternity shun him. He gives people hope, time and life. Charlie is an internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon and a pioneer in keyhole minimally invasive techniques.
Charlie Teo founded the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation (formerly the Cure for Life Foundation) in 2003, which, for the last 10 years, has been the largest funder of brain cancer research in Australia and which supports the Neuro-oncology wing of the Lowy Cancer Centre. As passionate about teaching as performing surgery, Charlie has been awarded Best Teacher awards in both the USA and Australia and devotes three months of every year instructing and doing live surgery pro bono in developing countries. In 2013, he was the first non-politician Australian to address the US Congress on the need for more funding for brain cancer research. Charlie is a father to four beautiful girls, husband to a very understanding wife, Genevieve, and supports the rights of girls and young women in impoverished countries through various charities including the Teo Family Foundation.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
He saved my life by removing a colloid cyst I had and it's been 20 years and thank god it hasn't came back. The other so- called doctor's are just pissed because he's better than they are and they know it.
This is true. Sometimes called jealousy. Doctor and the colleagues promote each other. Dr. Teo is a man who stands alone and also has been "slain" by other surgeons. He has survived those attacks and shines on his own! I love Dr. Teo. I stood by him and watched him work for 3 years. Not a better neurosurgeon walks this earth!
timothy prescott how much did you pay
Kuklxklan Less than what you would pay in Alabama !
Hi
Colloid cysts aren't terminal though. What do you mean he saved your life?
“I’ll never question someone’s quality of life if it doesn’t fit my idea of quality of life”
I’m crying 😭 such a lovely talk and man
He saved my life and I have major respect for this amazing soul. I'm currently a premed and I really hope to be a neurosurgeon one fine day. Told him about this aspiration I have while I was kayaking with him and he told me to just go all out at it. I love him so much and I hope to be like him in the 10 years :D
Sheryl,where are you today and your dream to be expired to become a neuosurgeon I suppose your ambition of becoming the best you want to be. Luke 18.27 And he said,The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
So you got the best mentor to train and teach you because your family had faith in achieving the best out come to you been here today.
Where are you? He needs you today
Charlie is UNIQUE.... and the World needs more Charlie Teos.
A great Man
As a medical student, I think this speech will change my life and my career path. Thanks Dr Teo.
I really hope it has!!
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His family is corrupt
Patient Autonomy…love this concept. This man deeply understands and that understanding displays real authentic deep empathy and respect. Awesome!
he is just fed up with the ego-ridden politics of medicine... which has unfortunately costs many lives. Salute!! Wish more doctors were as wise as him rather than knowledge alone.
We need more of people like Dr.Teo in medicine. He is a true gifted hero, humble, generous and courageous.
Studying medicine does not make you special, but it gives you a chance to do something special to people in need.
You have a sense of humanity that almost 98% of doctor dont have..thank you..hope other people in every other fields learn from you.. (Life is precious)
My hero, our hero, proud to have a professional who's australian.
He saved my sisters life awesome 👏 guy 👍🏻👍🏻
My wife is booked to see Dr Teo in the next couple of days for a second opinion. Having watched Charlie give this speech, I am 100% sure that we have made the right choice.
What happened??
How did it go
Hello, may we know how is your wife now . Did he make an operation on her? And what's the outcome if you don't mind. I'm just curious
WOW! I know who I would want as my surgeon! Thank you Dr Teo, what a remarkable human being you are! x
So grateful that we have such amazing people like Dr Charlie Teo.
WOW what a guy! What is stopping us from being like him. Come on man-kind!
such and amazing man - i truly hope i never have reason to meet you Charlie, but i am so happy you are there - too few drs respect patient and parental autonomy in these life and death situations.
and PLEASE stop riding motorbikes !!! too many people need you
Nah. You can't ever stop a man riding motorcycles. Ever. It's an addiction you will never swing. Riding is one of the most enjoyable experiences in life. You'll never stop him haha. You'll never stop anyone.
Currently in 2019 he is being attacked again after being proven to BE RIGHT! There is a petition right now in his favor with over 200k supporters.
Can you provide details of the petition please.
Just because people with no medical background think he is a surgery god doesn't mean this is right.
He is using some of his patients as test subjects. He operated people with devastating outcomes. And the worst thing is the times he refused to do a biopsy before operation and just hoped it is a better type of tumor.
He said it himself in this speech: he thought he shouldn't do a operation because 99.9% he was sure it's a DIPG (DIPG is not treatable) but he operated anyway because of the 0.01%. And he shows the one case where he was right.
What he doesn't show is the many cases where he was wrong (because 99.9% to 0.01% are indeed terrible chances). And in those cases, where he was wrong, the operation left those patients and families devistated. No breathing on your own, no movement or no conscience at all and still dead after months.
And the worst thing is that he didn't even told the patient and/or family that those devastating results can happen (or are likely) before operation. He just gives them real! false hope without discussing the cost. Which is absolutely extremely unethical.
See, the thing is operations can always go right or wrong. That's why doctors estimate the chance of it going right or wrong. But with him they go wrong a lot more then they should. He is not a god like surgeon, just willing to take way more (unethical) risks.
Link to sign?
Bet you feel silly now
watching this makes me relived my brain tumor issues. I had craniotomy 3 times after infection of the first brain surgery i am wearing a titanium plate in my frontal lobe. I get out from
my health scare because of the expertise of neuro surgeons . Money is nothing if its life in return. I am a functional 57 year old woman i got some issues but that is incomparable if i cannot talk, walk or recognize. Praise God!!! You are a remarkable Dr. Teo
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Dr Teo has saved and prolonged thousands of lives, most of those being patients who were otherwise told they were as good as dead.... Of course though, the focus is from the 2 mistakes that hes done out of all those successful ones. This is why no surgeon is willing to take any risks, even when there might be a chance. We need surgeons like Dr Teo.
Taking $50,000 from a sick child's parent in the name of "taking a risk", then lying to them when their child dies is not what we need.
@Rose-hh7mk and what about the thousands of lives he has saved that were told they would have to accept death by other doctors... what price would you put on that? Was he "lying" as you stated then or was it the medical community and hundreds of other doctors who "lied" by saying she wouldn't make it? I would personally pay 1 billion to save my daughter...
@@Rose-hh7mk50k for intensive surgery by a neurosurgeon with 40 years of experience with a host of specialist doctors and nurses is cheap as. When your prognosis is 100% death, a surgery with even 10% chance is survival is significantly better than doing nothing.
Charlie Teo a man of courage, class and style. Bless
Thank you, Dr. Teo! You are a shining diamond here!
Australian of the century this man definitely is
If there were a super hero in real life Charlie you would be the closest thing to it / what you do for people is priceless and your constant fight to beat the odds for those who need it most
You are a gift from God.
Incredible gift.
It's sad when his colleagues can't put their egos aside and try to discredit this man.
Well he was just found to have committed grave errors as a surgeon, including operating on a part of the brain that was perfectly fine but not the part that needed to be operated on and was found to have performed surgery when it was not viable.
False hope is definitely a thing!. When someone promises you a goal or potential reward, when in fact they never intended to give you that consideration, lied to you, or positioned you into an act that would do the opposite, then you are given false hope.
BUT that's what he does...
He is using some of his patients as test subjects. He operated people with devastating outcomes. And the worst thing is the times he refused to do a biopsy before operation and just hoped it is a better type of tumor.
He said it himself in this speech: he thought he shouldn't do a operation because 99.9% he was sure it's a DIPG (DIPG is not treatable) but he operated anyway because of the 0.01%. And he shows the one case where he was right.
What he doesn't show is the many cases where he was wrong (because 99.9% to 0.01% are indeed terrible chances). And in those cases, where he was wrong, the operation left those patients and families devistated. No breathing on your own, no movement or no conscience at all and still dead after months.
And the worst thing is that he didn't even told the patient and/or family that those devastating results can happen (or are likely) before operation. He just gives them real! false hope without discussing the cost. Which is absolutely extremely unethical.
See, the thing is operations can always go right or wrong. That's why doctors estimate the chance of it going right or wrong. But with him they go wrong a lot more then they should. He is not a god like surgeon, just willing to take way more (unethical) risks.
Yes. Yes. True humility. This is so timely. Thank you Doctor
Amazing and inspiring speech. Wish that I can be like Dr. Charlie Teo
Well said. Brilliant.
False hope exists only when patients are unable to provide informed consent or in situations where medical staff neglect their legal and ethical obligation to disclose honest and accurate information with regard to potential outcomes. When hope and chance is all there that exists, the voice of a patient must take priority.
Amanda Erin Griffin Totally agreed!
Yes, that right. Not the surgeon bent on discovering the in-between tumours and operate on it and then call it success cos what if it is not, how is he going to explain to the patient and their family, then it becomes - here where it is tricky, cos Dr Teo like to divert and explain in this manner. One has to go through all his video and then realise something is wrong. Is he brilliant- yes, but is he knife-trigger happy - yes.
Only a med student, but i see so much of myself in him. Big love
Thank you
False hope- is when a surgeon gives up. Good onya Charlie.
An amazing man.
Impressive!
RESPECT!
Thank goodness for Charlie Teo, surely hope is better than the inevitable, it should only be what the patient or the family wishes.
During the 'Stem Cell' debate the then Health Minister (Tony Abbott) said he didn't want to give people 'false hope' and thus would not approve using embryonic cells for research. Geez I'm glad he lost his seat in 2019.
And a decision made with no medical training on his part. Geez
10:17 was put precisely in the same place where I am before watching this video.
There is such a false hope! My ex gave me I was shuttered
yes there is
please help my niece Sara Ringaard from Singapore...please Sir.
He is one of the few true doctors of our time. Doctors should be here to guide not dictate.
Wow 👏👏👏
Real rockstar
No
He is a legend.
He is using some of his patients as test subjects. He operated people with devastating outcomes. And the worst thing is the times he refused to do a biopsy before operation and just hoped it is a better type of tumor.
He said it himself in this speech: he thought he shouldn't do a operation because 99.9% he was sure it's a DIPG (DIPG is not treatable) but he operated anyway because of the 0.01%. And he shows the one case where he was right.
What he doesn't show is the many cases where he was wrong (because 99.9% to 0.01% are indeed terrible chances). And in those cases, where he was wrong, the operation left those patients and families devistated. No breathing on your own, no movement or no conscience at all and still dead after months.
And the worst thing is that he didn't even told the patient and/or family that those devastating results can happen (or are likely) before operation. He just gives them real! false hope without discussing the cost. Which is absolutely extremely unethical.
See, the thing is operations can always go right or wrong. That's why doctors estimate the chance of it going right or wrong. But with him they go wrong a lot more then they should. He is not a god like surgeon, just willing to take way more (unethical) risks.
...in his own mind.
This is why I believe in accepting refugees & migrants but with the right ingredients or it can become a fear factor ....if it wasn't for the likes of Dr Teo we would not have such a beautiful cultural blend & the richness of another perspective which is an ingredient missing in most Anglo Australians im afraid & this is something missing in a profession of lifesavers & caregivers that is so vitat it's their humanity .
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What is the truth about Dr Teos critics? Take a look at the names of the people who have commented. The majority are ethics. I am an ethnic who has been in Austalia for nearly 40 years. That is more in age than half the population. It is unfortunate that these issues are still around. Throw professional jealously into the mix and you have a steamboat of issues. I am glad there is the Dr Teos in this world to stand up for what is right.
Well... All my life I've had mixed feelings about hope. It's too passive, waiting for some miracle (or dr. Teo) to happen. Now I'm terminally ill and I still think hope gets in the way of acceptance. Only when you accept reality as it is and accept what comes, can you enjoy what still is. Hope goes together with fear, the fear that the miracle won't happen. Of course I can't help but hope sometimes, and I accept that too. All of this does not undo my respect for dr. Teo, although I suppose he keeps silent about all those times it _didn't_ work out, and it _would_ have been best for the patient not to be operated upon and quiet acceptance _would_ have been.
There is such thing as false hope when you're wrongfully telling parents that their child will highly likely recover from a surgery that is immoral and impossible.
Who disliked this video...I demand to know :(
... The other doctors...
Probably the same jealous colleagues in his field with huge egos that are trying to discredit him.
Exactly. You really have to wonder...
You operated on my sister in law 5 months ago. She's 48, she was a teacher at blue mountain's grammer school. We tonight ponder how to take care of a profoundly confused women, one that cannot take care of her self and one who needs high level nursing care that the NDIS nor a private hospital or a public one is willing to take on. So now we are left with the prospect of putting her in an aged care facility, thanks Charlie great work.
Was it a last resort for your sister ? Did she have any other choice but to simply wait to die ? Your sister must have asked herself or had someone ask on her behalf, for Teo's help. He has been open about his failures in all his interviews. I think you pinned all your hopes on Teo keeping your
sister alive and well but like in any other arena of life some times the risk pays off and some times it doesn't. I'm sorry it didn't work out like you wanted it too, but some times that happens. Charlie Teo didn't put the cancer in your sisters head, he just tried to help her to be rid of it. I
think your anger is misplaced.
Her anger isn't misplaced and her story proves "false hope" does exist.
Of course you should hope,but if the hope is being sold to you at great cost by someone else,you should definitely be suspicious of it.
Hope sellers will only make you dream in case it comes true but reality is that only you and your relatives will be responsible for the financial and moral costs that arise when your hope does come true.
And of course,it is a high chance that is a false hope against scientifically proven high failure rate,recurrent disease.
Damn... Are doctors really this heartless?
Absolutely they are, I have had spinal stenosis in my cervical area that is squeezing my spinal cord, last time I had an MRI,several months back it was 32% of it's normal size. It has been getting steadily worse for over 10 years. I have seen 3 Neurosurgions over this time. Each time with various
different areas and degrees of neurological symptoms. Getting worse and worse as the disease that causes it progresses. I am at a very real risk of severing my spinal cord and becoming a paraplegic just like anyone else that breaks their neck in some kind of freak accident, completely severing their
spinal cord. Yet the NS's that have seen me, have seen this happen over 10 years and still will not do anything for me.I am already in a wheelchair, numb down my left side, some times I have function some times not. I wake with numb arms every day, some times my heels too. I have trouble focussing
my eyes at times and a sudden sneeze or bump and my eyesight comptetely disappears for 20 to 40 seconds. My heart rate and blood pressure isn't well modulated and I am starting to have real difficlties swallowing, eating and drinking and choking on and aspirating fluids. Not to mention the
referred pain and supercharged pins and needles I experience. Will any one of the Nurosurgions I have seen help me with this not on your life.
False hope and the addiction to searching. I suffer from Chronic GERD and nothing works. Chronic pain and burning is my daily life. No one can help me. I don't qualify for any surgeries, doctors don't know how to restore a damaged LES. Even with all of the technological advances. Life isn't worth living with CHronic pain.
He is using some of his patients as test subjects. He operated people with devastating outcomes. And the worst thing is the times he refused to do a biopsy before operation and just hoped it is a better type of tumor.
He said it himself in this speech: he thought he shouldn't do a operation because 99.9% he was sure it's a DIPG (DIPG is not treatable) but he operated anyway because of the 0.01%. And he shows the one case where he was right.
What he doesn't show is the many cases where he was wrong (because 99.9% to 0.01% are indeed terrible chances). And in those cases, where he was wrong, the operation left those patients and families devistated. No breathing on your own, no movement or no conscience at all and still dead after months.
And the worst thing is that he didn't even told the patient and/or family that those devastating results can happen (or are likely) before operation. He just gives them real! false hope without discussing the cost. Which is absolutely extremely unethical.
See, the thing is operations can always go right or wrong. That's why doctors estimate the chance of it going right or wrong. But with him they go wrong a lot more then they should. He is not a god like surgeon, just willing to take way more (unethical) risks.
If he just wanted Money, then he would opened GP 30 years ago and thats pretty much guranteed 300K plus a year without stress and pressure of seeing dying patients.
he has his case files posted for eveyone to see, so your comment is useless.
Apparently chemotherapy is still being used to treat cancer even though it carcinogenic
@@BobSayGhe seems to also want fame and adoration
@@jglg7238he operated on the wrong part of the brain and the patient died as a result, he also operated when the medical literature and basically everyone whose medical opinion is worth listening to said not to
This talk shows that Teo is a very good speaker. His point that it is the patient (or the patient's parents) who should be in charge is very well made. But his ethics aren't mainstream medica ethics in Australia, and that has got him into trouble. That's led to loss of privileges, loss of income, and that appears to have led to him loosing the plot and charging outrageous fees in foreign hospitals.
But like many controversial things, it's not all back and white. Other surgeons are not all as rigid as Charlie made out. My wife had a brain stem tumour, for which a top neurosurgeon said there was no point in operating - there would be no cure, and the operation would make her paralysis worse. My wife said for her giving up was unacceptable, and his should give it his best shot. She gave him a polite but very clear "pep-talk". He operated the next day, and my wife did quite well.
Psychopaths are always daring and have 0 empathy
What if the patient died at his hands
Then he would be dead, and no more or less dead than a patient who died under the care of a more mainstream doctor.
The cancer will likely kill that person any way. People will be under no illusion what the risks are. They will have been told that they are going to die, they go to Charlie as a last resort. As he said the patient is Edmond Hillary, he is Tenzig Norgay. He just does his best. He admits his failures
Some patients leave it too late to see him to have surgery. Teo operated on my husband with a good result. With each surgery I believe Dr Teo does his best for the patient & knows when to stop once inside.
@@NJSMKMMShe operated on a person who died because he operated on the wrong part
All brain tumours are operable, but not all are curable. It is the responsibility of surgeons to not offer very expensive surgery to patients who will not benefit from such surgery. Most patients with terminal cancer will naturally gravitate towards individuals who offer (sell) hope. Unfortunately, there are still medical practitioners (in the 21st century) who prey on this behaviour and seek to benefit financially from it. When a medical practitioner protests that his/her practice is being restricted by their colleagues, one should ask why. Is this individual truly exceptional, or does this individual's practice not stand up to adequate (and contemplative) peer review? One should also ask why this individual practitioner is at odds with the rest of his/her peers. Is this one person really more authoritative than hundreds of his/her peers? If so, what is the objective evidence for this?
Lol did you even watch the whole video?
You may well be one of the medical doctors he mentioned. What you don't want to say here is that Dr.Teo's surgical skills are well accepted all over the world
@@ngochikhanh I dun think so in my country especially with children. Got to be very carefule cos it also important ot manage patients and the family expectation.
He is just an scammer…giving false hope and rips off peoples wallets.
Yes he is.
Cured my friend when no one else would operate. He is one of the greatest
Scary doctor. No wonder his privileges were restricted in his own country. Operated on the wrong side o the brain and removed normal brain tissue!
Also operated on Pontine gliomas which is a big no no and charged an arm and a leg.
Hes also saved and prolonged thousands of lives, most of those being patients who were otherwise told they are as good as dead.... Of course though, the hearing is from the 2 mistakes that hes done out of all those successful ones.
This man's ethics are appalling and he's been heavily financially rewarded for his grand standing and cavalier attitude to the realities of humanity. Doctors aren't jealous. We're angry and we know the horror stories
You're jealous
the alternative is certain death and ultimately the patient, who with a consent form, decides anyway.
Ah yes another privileged white male who can't handle that someone is better than you
Just to remind you that Dr. Teo was once fired on the spot from his job by his chairman, for doing a successful EMERGENCY operation (not brain tumour) for his chairman's patient when the chairman was not at the hospital. Stop thinking about yourself first.
Fiona is still alive and well ❤️🩹 thank you for being brave enough to operate on her❤️