Surgeon loses license after removing man’s liver instead spleen: Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky blames mistake on ‘migrating’ organ

Gulf Coast Confidential with Mollye Barrows

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“Migrating” organs, doctored reports, and pressuring operating room staff to cover for his “egregious” mistakes - the Florida Department of Health made no bones about the seriousness of Destin surgeon Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky’s treatment of two patients that left one person permanently injured, and cost another man his life.

For now, the state of Florida has suspended the doctor’s license in the wake of the tragedy that killed 70-year-old Bill Bryan when Shaknovsky removed his liver instead of his spleen, by mistake.
In both cases he removed the wrong organ and, as if taking out the wrong organ wasn’t bad enough, he tried to make the operating room staff complicit with his blunder, all but daring them to defy him as he “blindly” operated on Bryan and refused to take responsibility when it was clear he had made a fatal error.

Join us for more on the emergency order issued by the Florida Dept. of Health in the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential podcast, “Surgeon loses license after removing man’s liver instead spleen: Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky blames mistake on ‘migrating’ organ.”

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