SINGAPORE – A traditional Chinese medication (TCM) medical professional has actually been suspended and fined with regard to expert negligence. She misdiagnosed a teenage patient as suffering from hormonal inequality when, in fact, she was pregnant.
Wu Liping, of the Shenzhou Chinese medical professional Center in Jurong, earned the incorrect diagnosis after listening to that the 15-year-aged girl possessed missed her interval with regard to 5 months.
Wu after that prescribed a herbal medication called “taohong siwutang jiawei”, which is implied to revitalise and strengthen blood flow.
However, the girl was really 5 months pregnant and her father submitted a complaint versus Wu.
In a declaration about Friday (June 10), the TCM Practitioners Board claimed that the medication prescribed by Wu would certainly have actually posed a good health threat to the two the girl and her unborn child.
It claimed Wu possessed failed to conduct an sufficient health care examination of the girl. The medical professional possessed additionally no longer recorded the girl’s clinical history.
The board said: “Wu possessed prescribed the TCM herbal medication… to the patient devoid of any type of regard to her real clinical condition.”
It included that Wu possessed additionally failed to think about the opportunity that the patient can have actually been pregnant. Wu’s three-month suspension began about June 1. She has actually additionally been fined $5,000, and censured by the board.
