DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — A grand jury indicted a Florida physician on a manslaughter cost for allegedly eradicating a affected person’s liver as a substitute of his spleen throughout a 2024 surgical procedure.
The prosecutor for the First Judicial Circuit on Monday introduced the cost of second-degree manslaughter in opposition to Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky.
Prosecutors stated that in an Aug. 21, 2024, surgical procedure, which was scheduled to be a laparoscopic splenectomy, Shaknovsky eliminated the sufferer’s liver as a substitute of his spleen. That resulted in “catastrophic blood loss and the affected person’s demise on the working desk,” legislation enforcement officers wrote in a press launch, The affected person was a 70-year-old man from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
“Our obligation is to comply with the info wherever they lead, with out worry or favor,” Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson stated in a press release.
Accessible courtroom information didn’t identify an legal professional for Shaknovsky.
Florida suspended Shaknovsky’s medical license after the surgical procedure. Information present he voluntarily surrendered his medical license in Alabama after regulators moved to revoke his license.