Florida Doctor Allegedly Removed Patient's
Liver Instead of Spleen, Killing Him
PJ Media,
by
Rick Moran
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
9/6/2024 8:29:38 AM
An Alabama man entered a Florida hospital for a procedure to remove his spleen. On Aug. 21, medical records provided to USA Today by Zarzaur Law show that "Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky performed a hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy procedure on William “Bill” Bryan, 70, from Muscle Shoals, Alabama."
Bryan's widow claims that Shaknovsky mistakenly removed his liver instead of his spleen.
“Dr. Shaknovsky removed Mr. Bryan’s liver and, in so doing, transected the major vasculature supplying the liver, causing immediate and catastrophic blood loss resulting in death,” the statement from the law firm said. “The surgeon proceeded with labeling the removed liver specimen as a 'spleen,' and it wasn’t until following the death
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
slipstik 9/6/2024 8:47:02 AM (No. 1791187)
"There's this dang thang in here keeps jumping and bumping around. I think I'll take it out and settle things down."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 9/6/2024 8:48:37 AM (No. 1791188)
If true, this is a whole new level of incompetence.
Having had a portion of my spleen removed a couple of weeks ago, I can sure relate to the story.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/6/2024 8:55:08 AM (No. 1791192)
This story is reminiscent of an ancient Mad Magazine spoof of the 1961-1966 show, Dr. Kildare. The doctor is in the OR doing cranial surgery. He picks up something, and says to the nurse, "Get this bloody sponge out of here." The nurse says, "But Dr. Kildare, that's the patient's brain!"
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/6/2024 8:56:05 AM (No. 1791193)
Excuse me, in Mad Magazine, Dr. Kildare was Dr. Killjoy! Slight correction.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rubinski 9/6/2024 8:57:34 AM (No. 1791194)
It’s a terrible occurrence, made worse because here in Alabama we have some of the best medical care in the region and maybe even the US at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JrSample 9/6/2024 8:57:46 AM (No. 1791196)
Those two organs don't look anything alike and they are on different sides of the abdomen.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
volksford 9/6/2024 9:14:00 AM (No. 1791203)
A Joisy transplant that speaks English and Russian with a degree from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine . This guy mistook a portion of a patients Pancreas for the Adrenal gland in previous screw up.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Wetenschapper 9/6/2024 9:37:16 AM (No. 1791211)
A real-life Simpsons' Doctor Nick Riviera.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 9/6/2024 10:11:02 AM (No. 1791237)
Paging Governor DeSantis! Time to get that stupid law corrected.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
nelsonted1 9/6/2024 10:11:18 AM (No. 1791238)
My next door neighbor had her spleen removed. That night she was so sick I wondered what was going on. I kept asking about an ambulance. She kept saying no. Finally, I told her she couldn't sleep on her love sleep, she had to either get on the lazy boy or her bed. She made the four feet on her hands and knees to putting her face on the cushion but couldn't get into the chair. That was when she agreed to the ambulance. When she was admitted she had temp of 105 degrees!
She was in the hospital for a week. I picked her up and got her to her lawn chair in her doorway. Then, she barfed in the bushes, went inside and an hour later she was rapping on our wall with her knuckles. Back to the hospital for another week.
Went to her friends home for a few days then her apartment.
She needed to go to a Dr appointment. She said bring her cpap machine just in case. She was gone for 45 minutes when a nurse came out and said they couldn't find her pulse so they were admitting her. She was so sick I swear one could see through her skin.
Another week. The surgeon who did the spleen surgery finally admitted he may have cut across her intestine in too much of a hurry.
They then took her to a cat scan finding a big mass in her spleen area. They kept her on the table, brought in a surgeon and drained the fluid. She said she immediately felt better.
The surgeon stayed out of trouble by killing himself and his wife crashing his plane in a Kmart parking lot in chicago.
Crazy stuff happens way, way too often.
Ted
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FTA: "Shaknovsky had made a similar mistake in 2023, removing portions of a pancreas instead of an adrenal gland, in a case that was settled privately, Zarzaur said."
His medical license should have been suspened after this first incident. It now needs to be revoked altogether.
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What a horrifying story, no. 10. I can't imagine the nightmare your family suffered. So glad your daughter is OK today!
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Correction: "neighbor".
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/6/2024 10:54:55 AM (No. 1791278)
My brother ruptured his spleen playing football, keeping him away from contact sports. That was way back in the 1950's when doctors didn't have Google and Facebook to help them practice.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chance_232 9/6/2024 10:56:16 AM (No. 1791279)
Did this doctor get his degree from the same college where AOC got her degree in economics??
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/6/2024 10:57:04 AM (No. 1791282)
The surgeon must have dyslexia. Can't tell the right from the left, liver from the spleen. This guy should never have been issued a medical license.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
vrb8m 9/6/2024 11:09:49 AM (No. 1791289)
Weren't there other people in the operating room? Nurses? Resident?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jdano 9/6/2024 11:23:22 AM (No. 1791292)
I've seen death by incompetent surgeons. If I ever need surgury, I will get my affairs in order first.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Highlander 9/6/2024 10:31:24 PM (No. 1791568)
So it takes months to revoke his license? I would bet that this and the other publicity would be enough to drive him out of business.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mifla 9/7/2024 6:11:15 AM (No. 1791640)
Proving once again that hospitals are no place for sick people.
And I used to laugh at the pre-op painting of the area of the patient's body to be operated on.
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Good GAWD!! And someone somewhere has a surgical appointment with him TODAY!! If you can't sue the doctor, himself, you can damn well sue the hospital that employs him!!