A country doctor has been banned from working after wrongly diagnosing a woman with glandular fever and anxiety weeks before she died of liver cancer and heart disease.
The 71-year-old woman went to GP Kin Vui Tan in Lithgow, central western NSW, five times in early 2021, with "alarming" blood test results and rapidly declining health.
Her death was caused by a combination of factors, including a heart attack, sepsis and likely cancer.by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal and disqualified for two years. During a 2021 hearing, Tan said he did not order scans because the woman either did not have symptoms or her medical issues had resolved.
He ignored the pathology lab's recommendation for a liver ultrasound and instead diagnosed the woman with glandular fever or another viral infection.
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