Chirurg din Florida care a îndepărtat un organ greșit spune că este profund marcat de moartea pacientului

Over the course of an eight-hour deposition, Florida surgeon Thomas Shaknovsky faced the same question again and again: Why did he remove a man’s liver instead of his spleen?The disastrous August 2024 surgical error and death of Shaknovsky’s patient, 70-year-old William Bryan, on the operating table prompted Bryan’s widow to file a lawsuit last year and a grand jury to indict Shaknovsky on a manslaughter charge last month. He has pleaded not guilty. Exactly what went wrong during the planned splenectomy has remained a mystery — especially since Shaknovsky has not spoken publicly about the case. A deposition Shaknovsky gave in November as part of the lawsuit offers his first detailed, emotional account of the operation. Shaknovsky said there were unusual factors that made Bryan’s procedure more difficult. And he described the profound toll of losing a patient, saying he broke down in tears afterward.Officers arrest Thomas Shaknovsky in Miramar Beach, Fla., on April 13.Walton County Sheriff’s Office“That was an incredibly unfortunate event that I regret deeply, and I’m forever traumatized by it and hurt by it,” he said, according to a transcript of the deposition shared with NBC News by attorney Joe Zarzaur, who represents Bryan’s widow, Beverly Bryan.Wrong-site surgeries can occur “during difficult circumstances,” Shaknovsky said, which in this case included blood in Bryan’s abdomen and an enlarged colon obstructing Shaknovsky’s view of other organs.Shaknovsky said that while he was trying to get a better view as the operation was underway, Bryan started bleeding profusely, causing his heart to stop. As the operating room team did chest compressions, Shaknovsky said, he desperately tried to find the source of the bleeding. It was during that chaotic time that he accidentally removed Bryan’s liver rather than his spleen.Shaknovsky then instructed a nurse to label the organ he removed as a spleen — which typically weighs less than 15% of a liver. “I can’t explain to you what it’s like for a surgeon to lose a patient on a table and how demoralizing it is and how devastating it is. And I couldn’t tell the difference because I was so upset,” Shaknovsky said of mixing up the organs. “It’s a devastating thing, which I will have to live with the rest of my life,” he said in the transcript, which is about 400 pages long, “and I think about it every single day.”He was indicted on a manslaughter charge in connection with the wrong-site surgery on William Bryan.He was driving for Lyft when he was arrested, body camera video shows. The son of a second patient who died after Shaknovsky operated on her described the family’s heartbreak: ‘It’s just not right.’ Prosecutors have not offered a detailed timeline of how the surgery unfolded. A medical examiner determined Bryan died of “exsanguination,” or bleeding to death, and “surgical removal of the liver,” according to his death certificate. Neithe