A Florida court hosted an eight-hour deposition where surgeon Thomas Shaknovsky was put to task about operating on the wrong organ. The case was more concerned with why than how — and despite the deposition lasting a full workday, Shaknovsky’s answers didn’t make for a very convincing justification.
According to NBC News, in Aug. 2024, Shaknovsky made the grave surgical error of removing a man’s liver instead of his spleen. The latest in a string of botched surgeries that have captured national attention ended in the death of Shaknovsky’s patient, William Bryan, who was 70 at the time. His death on Shaknovsky’s operating table led to a lawsuit by Bryan’s widow — and last month the doctor was indicted on a manslaughter charge.
