Neurosurgeon who breached patient data loses wrongful dismissal suit against SingHealth
Source: The Straits Times
Published on: 2025-01-21 09:42
SINGAPORE - A neurosurgeon sacked by SingHealth for accessing the medical records of more than 70 patients who were not under his care has lost his wrongful dismissal suit against the healthcare group. A High Court judge found that the data breach committed by Dr Eddie Tan Tung Wee, 43, was driven by his "single-minded desire to take down" Dr Chen Min Wei, a fellow neurosurgeon at National Neuroscience Institute (NNI). Dr Tan had been hired by SingHealth as an associate consultant neurosurgeon on Aug 1, 2018, and promoted to consultant neurosurgeon on Nov 1, 2020. From 2020, Dr Tan had lodged a series of complaints accusing the neurosurgery department of showing favouritism to Dr Chen, who was a year his junior. When investigated in 2021 over his data breach, Dr Tan admitted he had accessed patient records without authorisation, but contended that what he had done was justified as he...
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