{"id":231611,"date":"2026-04-14T18:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231611\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:42:14","slug":"florida-doctor-faces-manslaughter-charge-for-allegedly-removing-wrong-organ-during-surgery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231611\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida doctor faces manslaughter charge for allegedly removing wrong organ during surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. \u2014 A grand jury indicted a Florida doctor on a manslaughter charge for allegedly removing a patient\u2019s 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\u2019s medical license after the surgery. Records show he voluntarily surrendered his medical license in Alabama after regulators moved to revoke his license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. \u2014 A grand jury indicted a Florida doctor on a manslaughter charge for allegedly removing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-231611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231611","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=231611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}