Monday, February 03, 2025

DOCTOR KILLS PATIENT BY REMOVING WRONG ORGAN

By Bob Walsh


Left: William Bryan, Beverly Bryan. Right: Thomas Shaknovsky (images courtesy of Zarzaur Law). 

Left: William Bryan, Beverly Bryan. Right: Thomas Shaknovsky 

 

Back on August 21 William Bryan and his wife Beverly Bryan of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, were at their vacation property in Okaloosa County, Florida when William experienced a medical emergency.

They went to the Acension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast hospital in Florida.  William was told he had a bum spleen and recommended it be jerked via an emergency laparoscopic splenectomy.  He did.  Trouble is, the Dr. removed his liver instead of his spleen, and then (allegedly) tried to cover up the error.  William died as a direct result of the error.  

His widow, who is suing, asserts that due to at least one prior very similar incident and other significant surgical errors ASHEC medical center should have known the doctor, Thomas Shaknovsky, was incompetent.  

The current status of Shaknovsky's medical practice and license was not mentioned in the article. 

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