Charlie Teo is Australia’s best-known surgeon. He is also the country’s most controversial specialist. Martin McKenzie-Murray on what defines Teo and the balance he asks us to strike between hope and orthodoxy.

Guest: Chief correspondent for The Saturday Paper Martin McKenzie-Murray.

Background reading:

The promise of renowned neurosurgeon Charlie Teo in The Saturday Paper

The Saturday Paper

The Monthly 

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