Crowdfunding for surgery is a 'distressing' trend, medical groups say

‘Something is seriously wrong if a terminally ill girl with a brain tumour has to raise $120,000,’ one doctor says

Two of Australia’s leading health bodies have criticised the use of crowdfunding to pay for surgery, saying examples of patients having to raise as much as $120,000 for life-saving cancer treatments are “distressing”.

On Tuesday the Australian reported that Henry Woo, a professor of surgery at the University of Sydney, had questioned the ethics of crowdfunding for surgery.

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