Posted on 04/26/2026 2:14:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Florida doctor accused of fatally removing the wrong organ from a patient was recently arrested while working a shift for Lyft — much to the horror of his vacationing passengers.
Thomas Shaknovksy, 44, was cuffed April 13 in Miramar Beach, Fla., on charges of second-degree manslaughter while carting around two customers in his silver Mitsubishi.
An officer with the Walton County Sheriff’s Office hauled Shaknovksy out of his car and handcuffed him while pressing the suspect against the back driver’s side window, where one of his stunned passengers was sitting, according to police body-camera footage obtained by NBC News. Once Shaknovksy was in the patrol car, the officers pivoted and guided his two passengers to the side.
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This is going to be a very large settlement when you think of all the professionals who were in the room watching this guy make the mistake. At some time in the process, you reach the point of no return, when the patient is fatally impaired. But before that was reached, many people in that operating room knew better and did nothing. So, I would sum up the limits of their malpractice coverage, then move on to the hospital and its responsibility for credentialing and monitoring the capabilities of those who have privileges there.
I also wonder who got the responsibility of telling the wife, and whether the patient regained consciousness before death, and was aware of what happened to him.
Everybody big enough to die needs to be sued in this case. What a fluster cluck.
My son‘s mother-in-law was recently sick Two sets of doctors missed the big white spots on her lungs until she went to pulmonologist who says oh you have pneumonia
What kind of Dr. has to moonlight asa cab driver?
Especially a surgeon. That’s an odd hobby.
It was an uber mistake................(This is a local story here, BTW)............
Likely most vets know the liver from the spleen.
It’s time to stop accepting doctor’s certification from foregin countries. These people should be retested to US standards.
Definitely!
I did that before hip replacement surgeries. I considered that Sharpie ink going into my bloodstream might be bad, but it was better than the alternative.
My Dr came in and marked the operative limb during preop
I'm gonna guess he lost his hospital rights when he killed that guy.
Don’t you have to kind of move the liver around in there to get to most everything else? Ha Ha.
For the last replacement, my surgeon put a sticker on the hip.
Yeah, I went back and read the full article. This guy was a real piece of work.
He is “wanted” for this one, but was getting sued for another case where a woman he did work on died from sepsis.
Not sure where he went for his surgical residence…but I wouldn’t go there for surgery.
He went to a highly ranked US University and is a Dr. of Osteopathy which is actually more schooling than an MD.
“earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine at Midwestern University in Downers Grove, Illinois, graduating in 2009”
He must’ve been on drugs.
Was going to ping you, but I see you’ve already found this thread. ;)
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Well, that’s generally true, unless one has end stage liver disease-cirrhosis- like I did. The surgeon took mine out and replaced it with another that matched me. I waited 4 years for it.
What a horrible, messed up story. His family should also be suing whoever gave him his license to practice medicine.
What do you call the person who graduates at the very bottom of the class in Medical School?
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