Petition Update 4 September 2025
🙏Tara and her family including Tara’s 2 children need our help!
What’s disappointing? this isn’t Tara’s first time - Tara has had to undertake Brain Surgery before. The difference was she had her family, friends and her home to recover in. Support. Real Support.
But……… this time “Tara’s a Mum and has to undertake such a serious surgery in another Country”
How is that fair? How can a person’s Brain Surgery recovery be in another Country when “Dr Teo WOULD have done this surgery for FREE under Medicare in Australia” 🇦🇺
⁉️That’s correct! You read it right! FOR FREE ⁉️
👉If Dr Teo was a “maverick” as a certain media outlet and other Neurosurgeons advise. Why would he do this in front of a whole Neurosurgical team?
👉If Dr Teo is the egotistical Neurosurgeon who’s “out for the money” Why does Dr Teo repeatedly offer and conduct Brain Surgeries for FREE and undertake Pro Bono work?
👉If Dr Teo didn’t care for people lives, would operate on anyone and not care about the patient outcome, Why would he undertake the Surgery in a Public Hospital setting knowing EVERYONE is watching 👀for the outcome.
THEN WE ASK THIS? Why would he offer?
🗣Let’s SHARE this story and Go Fund Me far and wide. Let’s get Tara and her family back to Australia ready to live her life to the fullest.
Link below regarding a fundraising “Activity Day” being held this weekend 6th of September! The family would love to see you there 🙏
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🗣A Sydney mother-of-two with a brain tumour the size of a mandarin is fundraising to travel to Spain for surgery with controversial neurosurgeon Charlie Teo.
🧠Tara Boland, 34, is unable to undergo the operation in Australia after Dr Teo was restricted from performing high-risk surgeries without approval from another neurosurgeon.
Tara URGENTLY needs our help! Sky news and other social media channels have made a difference but we could do more!
💪What Neurosurgeon who is going to put their career on the line for someone else? There’s been to many Surgeons shunned in Australia 🇦🇺 for thinking differently or for not towing the strict pharmaceutical line.
❌He also revealed he received a rejection from the council following a formal request to have the conditions placed on his practice removed.
❌”I got a total rejection, it’s ridiculous,” Dr Teo said.
❌”It’s an absolute travesty. It’s tragic and (Tara) is just one of hundreds of patients.
“I have a complete licence to operate by the Medical Board of Australia, so I could operate today, if someone would allow me to operate.”
🗣WE ASK WHY To?
Why is it then that every administrator of every hospital where I have applied for privileges have said, yes, we’ll take you, but every “neurosurgeon” has said no,” he said.
“👉”If that’s not unfair, what is?”👈
🧠Dr Teo revealed his office receives emails from up to 10 Aussie patients a day, seeking his services but can’t afford to travel overseas. 🌎
🧪 The specialist has performed more than 200 brain tumour surgeries overseas, mainly in China and Spain. He said he understood why other Australian surgeons hesitate.
👎”A lot of doctors go: ‘Well, I could be radical, but boy, it’s not going to be good for me, it’s certainly not going to be good for my reputation and I’m going to pull my punches, even if the patient has an appetite for risk,’” he said. 👎
“Is it risky for the patient or is it risky for you and your reputation? And sadly, what’s happened to me by the Australian medical governing bodies is a perfect reason why you won’t do a radical resection.”
🎙 Interview link from “Over 60” with Professor Teo🎙
📺Interview from Sky News 📺
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DWgBXcnDg/?mibextid=wwXIfr
📰 Tara’s Story and Go Fund Me Link 📰
“Fades for Tara Event”
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