{"id":232376,"date":"2026-04-15T07:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232376\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:03:22","slug":"manslaughter-charge-for-florida-doctor-accused-of-removing-wrong-organ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232376\/","title":{"rendered":"Manslaughter charge for Florida doctor accused of removing wrong organ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) \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. (AP) \u2014 A grand jury indicted a Florida doctor on a manslaughter charge for allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25758,8173,265,1882,28,30,29,477,571,1109,4100,103807,20795,103396,1110],"class_list":{"0":"post-232376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-al-state-wire","9":"tag-alabama","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-fl-state-wire","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-headlines","14":"tag-florida-news","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-health","17":"tag-homicide","18":"tag-indictments","19":"tag-michael-adkinson","20":"tag-surgery","21":"tag-thomas-shaknovsky","22":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232376","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=232376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}