Patient died when surgeon removed wrong organ
A surgeon had to remove 70-year-old William Bryan's spleen during an operation at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital in the US state of Florida. But the surgeon made a mistake, with disastrous consequences.
On August 21, surgeon Thomas Shaknovsky began surgery to remove William's spleen. However, according to the family, the surgeon removed the liver, severing “the major blood vessels” to the organ, “causing immediate and catastrophic blood loss, resulting in death.”
An autopsy officially determined that the removed organ was actually William's liver. His spleen was found to still be inside his body, with a small cyst on its surface. And it turned out not to be the first mistake of the surgeon in question. For example, last year he had wrongly removed part of someone's pancreas instead of the adrenal gland.
The victim's widow is now dragging the flattering surgeon to court. “My husband died while lying helpless on the operating table at the hands of Dr. Shaknovsky,” said Beverly Bryan. “I don't want anyone else to die because of his incompetence, in a hospital that should have known or knew he had made drastic, life-changing surgical mistakes before.”
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