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NewsChannel 7 A Florida doctor whose bizarre operating room error led to the death of a patient said he spends every day haunted by his mistake. Thomas Shaknovsky accidentally removed William Bryan’s liver instead of his spleen while operating on the 70-year-old in August 2024. “That was an incredibly unfortunate event that I regret deeply, and I’m forever traumatized by it and hurt by it,” Shaknovsky said in a November deposition, obtained Thursday by NBC. “I can’t explain to you what it’s like for a surgeon to lose a patient on a table and how demoralizing it is and how devastating it is,” he went on. “It’s a devastating thing, which I will have to live with the rest of my life.” Shaknovsky added he thinks “every single day” about the incident, which took place when Bryan’s heart stopped after he started bleeding profusely on the operating table. Shaknovsky made to remove Bryan’s spleen in his search for the source of the bleed but in the confusion wound up removing the man’s liver instead. He is currently facing manslaughter charges and if convicted would spend 15 years in prison. Read it at NBC News Read more at The Daily Beast.
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