A Florida-based surgeon who mistakenly removed a man’s liver also had a female patient previously die after a last-minute procedure change, according to a new complaint leveled against him.
Thomas Shaknovsky had his medical license suspended in Florida on Sept. 24 after his patient, William Bryan, bled out during a splenectomy gone wrong. The embattled physician has now also had his license suspended in Alabama following a new complaint filed by the state’s Board of Medical Examiners on Oct. 22, as reported by McClatchy News .
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The complaint alleges that Shaknovsky was negligent in the August death of Bryan, of Alabama; his treatment of a patient who had part of his pancreas removed instead of his adrenal gland in May 2023, as well as the death of a female patient who faced complications following surgery in July 2023.