SINGAPORE - A surgeon has been suspended from practice for 10 months for sending more than 120 derogatory and abusive e-mails about the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) and people linked to it. Dr Pang Ah San, a general surgeon who works at SC Chia Clinic at Mount Alvernia Hospital, also has to pay a penalty of $10,000, remove all derogatory social media posts against the SMC and people it appointed, and pay all costs of the disciplinary hearing. Dr Pang, who is in his 60s, had faced two prior disciplinary hearings - for using a "loop" percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube on four patients between 2007 and 2009. This method of providing a permanent way to feed through a gastrostomy tube is not generally accepted by the medical profession. Following a complaint by the family of one of the patients, Dr Pang was found guilty of professional misconduct and fined $10,000 in 2012. He appealed against the judgment by the Court of Three Judges, which upheld the disciplinary committee's verdict. A second disciplinary hearing was convened based on the similar treatment of the three other patients. This time, in 2014, he was suspended for six months and fined $10,000. Dr Pang was also order...