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US surgeon who removed patient’s liver instead of spleen charged with his death
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Surgeon Thomas Shaknovsky began the procedure as a laparoscopy but switched to open surgery because he could not clearly see the organs.
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Vjosa Isai
NEW YORK – When an Alabama man visited a Florida hospital in August 2024, he reported a pain in his left side, near the spleen.
Three days later, he died on the operating table, missing a different organ, his liver, on his right side.
