It's always a good idea to choose your doctor carefully — and to really do your homework on your surgeon, cuz look at this:
An Alabama husband died on a Florida operating table when the doctor mistakenly removed the man's liver during surgery before the surgeon attempted to pass off the organ as an 'enlarged spleen,' according to a lawyer representing the man's widow.
Yeaaah I don't think you can just remove a dude's liver and say, "Yeah, that was a spleen!" and leave it at that.
Tragically, but totally predictably, the poor man did not make it. He underwent surgery at the hospital for "abnormality of the spleen," but the doc apparently didn't know his way around the abdominal cavity:
In the middle of the surgery, [General Surgeon Dr. Thomas] Shaknovsky removed Bryan's liver by transecting the major vasculature supplying the liver.
The surgical cut resulted in 'immediate and catastrophic blood loss resulting in death,' the post read.
After erroneously removing Bryan's liver, the general surgeon labeled the organ as a 'spleen,' which was only identified as a liver after the man's death.
This isn't the first time this doc allegedly took out the wrong body part: In 2023 he "had a previous 'wrong-site surgery'" in which he "supposedly removed a portion of a patient's pancreas instead of performing the intended adrenal gland resection."
Doc needs a map to do basic hospital surgery, apparently.
The hospital, for one, appears to think that the suit might be warranted: The facility "disassociated" itself with Shaknovsky and has "removed all photos and references to the doctor from its website, according to Zarzaur."
Meanwhile, major surgery may have been entirely unnecessary in the first place:
Following William Bryan's death, an apparent small cyst was discovered on his spleen which is believed to be the cause of the pain he was hospitalized for.
Unbelievable.
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