Charlie Teo AM, MBBS

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ETHIOPIA August, 2025: Operating in Addis Ababa

....ANOTHER power outage!!!
Thanks to the many applications of the iphone, the operation went on without a hitch.
ETHIOPIA August, 2025: hotel view in Addis Ababa

Power outages every other hour. Tremors through the night. More surgeries tomorrow. Business as usual in Addis Ababa.
ETHIOPIA August, 2025: Culture Night in Addis Ababa

Local food is super vegan-friendly, traditionally eaten by scooping it up with injera (sourdough flatbread).
ETHIOPIA August, 2025: This courageous 3-year-old Ethiopian boy had been living with a massive brain tumour, near blindness, and paralysis for over a year.

In an 8 hour surgery under extreme conditions, power cuts, equipment failure, and locked doors, Prof. Teo removed the entire tumour using a keyhole approach.
Thanks to the Ling Feng Foundation, he woke asking for his mother, with signs his vision may already be improving.
ETHIOPIA August, 2025: Before & After

Here are the before and after images of the 3-year-old Ethiopian boy featured in the earlier update.
CHINA August, 2025: Where Titles Don’t Define the Work

Professor He may run the neurosurgery department, but today he’s running the wipes. Turnover time just got faster.
CHINA August, 2025: Australian patient travels to China for successful removal of an "inoperable" brainstem GBM

JG, a wife and mother of three, was deteriorating in keeping with tumour progression. Her courage to undergo high-risk surgery paid off.
CHINA August, 2025: Australian patient travels to China for successful gross total removal of a recurrent GBM

TM’s left temporal GBM recurred. With excellent quality of life, she refused to give up. Yet in Australia, I’m not only barred from helping patients like TM and JG, but even from offering them my honest opinion.