Posted on 09/04/2024 4:14:52 PM PDT by george76
It’s every tomophobians’ worst nightmare.
According to multiple reports, an alleged interstate case of a medical procedure going horrifically wrong has the family of the deceased accusing the doctor of gross malpractice.
William Bryan, a resident of Muscle Shoals, Alabama.. reportedly died after a Florida surgeon removed the wrong organ during an operation.
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Bryan was taken to Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital in Walton County, Florida, on Aug. 18.
What happened next was, as the Bryan family’s attorney, Joe Zarzaur, put it, “one of the most egregious cases of medical malpractice that I’ve ever been involved with.”
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The Bryans were reportedly “reluctant” to go through with the procedure, and considered traveling back home to Alabama for the surgery. But the family lawyer claimed that the general surgeon, Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky, and the hospital’s chief medical officer, Dr. Christopher Bacani, successfully convinced the family to stay for the procedure.
The Journal chronicled: “Shaknovsky proceeded with a hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy procedure.”
The issue arose when the doctor removed an organ that was decidedly not a spleen.
“During the operation, Shaknovsky removed Bryan’s liver and, in so doing, transected the major vasculature supplying the liver, causing immediate and catastrophic blood loss that resulted in Bill Bryan’s death
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Perhaps even more alarmingly .. that Shaknovsky didn’t even notice the blatant surgical error at first.
The doctor reportedly labeled the removed liver as a “spleen.”
Zarzaur himself felt that the facts of this case were “so egregious,”
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
“Oooppss….you mean this guy isn’t the ‘donor’?”
The absolute rage & heartbreak I would feel if that was my loved one.
It’s pretty hard to mistake a liver for anything else. But what do I know? I’m just an engineer.
DEI, obviously.
DEI surgeon?
Spleen, liver, whatever.
spleen = size of avacado = upper left side of the abdomen above the stomach and inside the ribs
liver = size of a football = upper right side of the abdomen inside the ribs
kinda hard to mistake the two
I was going to say, spleen is on the left, liver is on the right.
I’m a former carpenter so I know these things! /s
Horrors…
No way. Liver and spleen confused? No way.
And the surgeon wasn’t the only medical practitioner there. Did no one notice?
I’ve had surgery several times, the kind of procedures where general anesthesia would be used. Each time ‘Show Time’ begins, when I’m given that first injection to put me out, I say a prayer and remind myself of how blessed my life has been, how thankful I am for having access to good doctors.
All that being said, I know each serious surgery is a big gamble I have chosen to take. There is a strong liklihood that all will turn out well like the last few times, but nothing is guaranteed.
Nothing at all.
Liver is on the right, spleen is on the left, seriously the good Doc couldn’t figure that one out..geez, let me guess, anther DEI hire
The hospital is a small 76-bed local hospital that never should have tried this.
His family is going to OWN that hospital and those doctors by the time this is all over.
Dr Shaknovsky must have been drunk or high or something. I'm not a doctor, and I even know where those organs are.
I can only assume the doctor has a callous disregard for human life and subsequently has made his own life forfeit.
heartbreaking story, esp given they considered returning to AL for the operation.
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