Chinese medicine practitioner inflicts 2.5cm pneumothorax during woman’s treatment for back pain
When the woman cried out, she was told the pain was because her 'her body was tense'.
A Chinese medicine practitioner who punctured a woman’s lung with an acupuncture needle was not registered to practise, a tribunal has heard.
Gyu Hyuk Han had been left in charge of a Sydney Chinese medicine clinic when the 32-year-old patient presented with back pain.
Mr Han, who had once been registered to prescribe and dispense Chinese herbal medicines and perform acupuncture, had been explicitly told by the owner of the clinic he was not to treat patients.
But he decided to offer the woman acupuncture and massage “because he felt like treating her”, the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal heard.
