Manslaughter charge for Florida doctor accused of removing wrong organ
AP News
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A grand jury indicted a Florida doctor on manslaughter charges for allegedly removing a patient’s liver, instead of his spleen, during a 2024 surgery.
The Office of the State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit on Monday announced the charge of second-degree manslaughter against Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky.
Prosecutors said that during an Aug. 21, 2024 surgery, which was scheduled to be a laparoscopic splenectomy, Shaknovsky removed the victim’s liver instead of his spleen.
The patient died.
The patient was a 70-year-old man from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Available court records did not name Shaknovsky’s attorney.
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