Hot on the heels of the controversial Lim Lian Arn case in which an orthopaedic surgeon was fined $100,000 for not getting informed consent for a common injection, comes the Soo Shuenn Chiang case, in which Dr Soo, a psychiatrist, was fined $50,000 for breach of medical confidentiality for disclosing medical information to someone impersonating the patient's husband.
Both cases have created a furore of hitherto unseen intensity and scale within the local medical profession.
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