Surgeon charged £8m for cancer treatment

An eminent surgeon who charged a member of the Brunei royal family £8m for breast cancer treatment has been allowed to remove her name voluntarily from the UK medical register. Dr Susan Lim Mey Lee was a leading expert in robotic-assisted surgery and stem cell research. She had treated Pengiran Anak Hajah Damit when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001 until she died, aged 51, in August 2007. But Brunei’s Ministry of Health filed a complaint about the…