For her part, Dr Lim pointed out to a detailed report produced by a firm specialising in forensic accounting which concluded that the daily breakeven cost for her practice, over a six-month period in 2007, during which she worked intensely on the patient, amounts to $46,000.
This compares to the $58,000 daily charges which she billed the patient for, which included overtime pay and work done outside of Singapore not factored into the calculation of the $46,000.
"So I ask you, where are the huge profits? This was a huge loss-making assignment,"
