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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Exactly.
Maybe you’re right.
“...Dr. of Osteopathy which is actually more schooling than an MD.”
Not true at all. They’re both 4 year degrees and are essentially equivalent, except that DO students take an extra course, either concentrated in their senior year or all along the 4 years, of body musculoskeletal manipulation (which very few practicing DO’s actually use after graduation). Each DO school is different.
I’d like to see the autopsy report. It might simply be that the patient’s liver was very large, especially with a left lobe passing over to the spleen, and maybe that was what was removed (the left lobe, or leftmost portion) from a large liver, causing hemorrhage. Important vessels at and around the liver were also “snipped or stapled,” per the linked article, causing hemorrhage and lack of blood flow to some other areas. To remove the full liver intact is quite a bit of work and involves clamping and cutting major large veins and large branches of arteries. Somehow I’m doubting that his whole liver was removed.
You just said not true and in the same sentence said they take additional classes. Go bother someone else with your stupidity.
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