Absolutely they were scared. In the other article linked in one of the comments, the doctor ordered the technician to send the liver for an autopsy listed as a spleen, even tho the tech new it was a liver. The technician complied.
The medical examiner of course corrected that in his examination to rule it as a healthy liver.
That’s why I wonder about the anesthesiologist. The one person in the room that could challenge the doctor.