FLORIDA SURGEON FINALLY LOSES MEDICAL LICENSE AFTER REMOVING WRONG ORGAN
It’s hard to overstate my confusion when I learned the several upsetting details about the Florida surgeon, Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky. And I can only imagine the emotions his erstwhile if not literal victims and their respective families as they hear this news as well. But it’s also worth mentioning that this is FLORIDA, and despite my sympathies about the state’s state after the recent hurricane, Florida seems to constantly raise the bar about how things break down that shouldn’t. And now added to that list is how this Florida surgeon finally, at long last, lost his license to practice medicine after removing a patient’s wrong organ.
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SUNSHINE STATE TALLIED 21 PAGES DETAILING FLORIDA SURGEON ERRORS AND COVERUPS
The Florida surgeon’s patient was one now deceased Bill Bryan. He went into surgery to have his spleen removed. But apparently, Dr. Shaknovsky couldn’t recognize a spleen if he saw one (and he totally saw it). Because the (not) good doctor instead removed Mr. Bryan’s liver. Not surprisingly, this resulted in Mr. Bryan’s death. And so now, at last, the currently flooded sunshine state’s Department of Health decided to suspend Dr. Shaknovsky’s medical license, and included a 21-page document to include all the Florida surgeon’s truly insane errors and his efforts to cover said errors up.
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WHY DIDN’T THIS CRIMINALLY INCOMPETENT FLORIDA SURGEON LOSE LICENSE EARLIER?
So it’s worth saying that by the time it takes 21 pages to detail how bad a doctor is, it’s way, way past time to have already stopped him from practicing medicine. Because the liver-instead-of-spleen error isn’t even the first time that the Florida doctor forgot his anatomy. He also removed part of another patient’s pancreas instead of his adrenal gland, and claimed that the error was due to the adrenal gland having “migrated,” or moved. Except that the two things look nothing alike…. And another “error” example was how he was an hour late to perform an appendectomy, had trouble “identifying” the appendix, and “fired a stapling device blindly” into the patient’s abdomen.
So far, we know that Mr. Bryan’s widow, the patient whose liver was mistakenly removed, is planning a civil lawsuit. I can expect there may be other lawsuits to follow.
