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Charlie Teo surgery on woman left in vegetative state had 'no benefit', disciplinary hearing told

Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo and his girlfriend Traci Griffiths outside the Health Care Complaints Commission hearing. (ABC News: Isobel Roe)

One of Charlie Teo's brain surgeries that left a middle-aged woman in a vegetative state had "no benefit" and the rationale behind it was "nonsense", a disciplinary hearing has been told. 

The committee also heard Dr Teo is accused of slapping a different women across the face in full view of her family, while she was in a coma post surgery.

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