{"id":231559,"date":"2026-04-14T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231559\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:06:11","slug":"florida-doctor-faces-manslaughter-charge-for-allegedly-removing-wrong-organ-during-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231559\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida doctor faces manslaughter charge for allegedly removing wrong organ during surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grand jury indicted a Florida doctor on manslaughter charges for allegedly removing a patient\u2019s liver, instead of his spleen, during a 2024 surgery. The Office&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla.(AP) \u2014 A grand jury indicted a Florida doctor on a manslaughter charge for allegedly removing a patient&#8217;s liver instead of his spleen during a 2024 surgery. <\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor for the First Judicial Circuit on Monday announced the charge of second-degree manslaughter against Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said that during an Aug. 21, 2024, surgery, which was scheduled to be a laparoscopic splenectomy, Shaknovsky removed the victim\u2019s liver instead of his spleen. That resulted in \u201ccatastrophic blood loss and the patient\u2019s death on the operating table,\u201d law enforcement officials wrote in a press release, The patient was a 70-year-old man from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur duty is to follow the facts wherever they lead, without fear or favor,\u201d Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Available court records did not name an attorney for Shaknovsky. <\/p>\n<p> Florida suspended Shaknovsky&#8217;s medical license after the surgery. Records show he voluntarily surrendered his medical license in Alabama after regulators moved to revoke his license.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A grand jury indicted a Florida doctor on manslaughter charges for allegedly removing a patient\u2019s liver, instead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-231559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}