SINGAPORE - These past few months have been utterly surreal for her, says Susan Lim. But the damage has been concrete. It can even be measured in dollars and cents.
Her practice, once among the most successful private surgical practices in Singapore, is now technically bankrupt, she says.
Speaking to The Business Times in her first media interview since the saga involving allegations of 'mark-ups' began, Dr Lim says with a hint of wonder: 'It's like I'm in some prolonged Halloween party and I've been masqueraded in a cloak of scandal.'
The 'scandal' made news with the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) alleging in court earlier this year that Dr Lim had grossly marked up her bills to her wealthy Bruneian patient, in one case by as much as 500 times - a point she has strenuously contested.
'This is the problem when the patient is not alive.' Her patient - the younger sister of the Queen of Brunei - died in August 2007.
'If she were alive, she would say this is exactly what I wanted. It's because people now looking at the bills were not privy to what happened in those years.'
source : asiaone
