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Man Dies on Operating Table After Surgeon Inexplicably Removes Wrong Organ: Attorney
Western Journal ^ | September 4, 2024 | Bryan Chai

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 ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alabama; christopherbacani; florida; floridasurgeon; joezarzaur; liver; medicalmalpractice; muscleshoals; organ; shaknovsky; spleen; surgeon; thomasshaknovsky; waltoncounty; wboopie; williambryan
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To: ETCM
Apparently, the mistake wasn't even noticed until the autopsy, where the examiner found the deceased was missing his liver, but still had a spleen. p>Thank goodness the Pathologist / Coroner wasn't as incompetent!

Imagine if the Coroner's report had instead read:

"The decedent's body had mysteriously transformed into a large pot roast, with all the trimmings, and migrated into my refrigerator. But I proceeded with autopsy, and found no evidence of wrong-doing on the part of the surgeon. Also: It was delish!"

Regards,

101 posted on 09/04/2024 11:48:04 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: HonkyTonkMan
I thought having the surgeon verify and mark the surgical area with a marker and initials was standard practice.

But that ain't no help to the surgeon, if that durned spleen is changing color, tripling in size, moving to the other side of the body, and masquerading as a liver!

Regards,

102 posted on 09/04/2024 11:50:14 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: lee martell

HA! :)


103 posted on 09/04/2024 11:59:36 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: george76; FamiliarFace

Ping!.................


104 posted on 09/05/2024 7:03:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Omg.


105 posted on 09/05/2024 7:19:19 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Probably wanted the $.


106 posted on 09/05/2024 7:19:28 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: george76

Wow really hard to not know you took the liver out, close the hospital and charge the surgeon and hospital medical director with murder.


107 posted on 09/07/2024 9:16:14 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: blueplum

Well the problem wasn’t that they removed it. They could have reimplanted had they not cut his major artery causing him to bleed out.

Yes I don’t know how you mix up a liver with a spleen but still real cause of death was they bled him out


108 posted on 09/07/2024 9:19:01 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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