A Florida doctor has been indicted in connection with the death of a 70-year-old man who had the wrong organ removed during surgery
Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky, 44, was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of second-degree manslaughter in the August 2024 death of the man of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the Office of the State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit said.
Prosecutors allege that on Aug. 21, 2024, during what was scheduled to be a laparoscopic splenectomy, Shaknovsky accidentally removed the victim's liver instead of his spleen. The move resulted in "catastrophic blood loss and the patient’s death on the operating table," a press release said.
Why did it take so long? I remember when it happened and this butcher has been at it for 30 years. I don't think I could make that mistake and I only know my way around the innards of a whitetail deer...