{"id":71712,"date":"2026-04-14T15:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/florida-surgeon-indicted-after-removing-liver-instead-of-spleen\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:55:39","slug":"florida-surgeon-indicted-after-removing-liver-instead-of-spleen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/florida-surgeon-indicted-after-removing-liver-instead-of-spleen\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida surgeon indicted after removing liver instead of spleen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grand jury brings manslaughter charge over fatal 2024 operation where patient died on table<\/p>\n<p>A surgeon in Florida has been indicted for manslaughter after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/sep\/04\/alabama-man-death-wrong-organ-surgery\">wrongly removed a patient\u2019s liver<\/a> instead of his spleen during an August 2024 procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Shaknovsky, 44, was indicted by a grand jury in Tallahassee on Monday after prosecutors said he botched the surgery of 70-year-old William Bryan, of Muscle Shoals, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/14\/florida-surgeon-removes-liver-spleen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand jury brings manslaughter charge over fatal 2024 operation where patient died on table A surgeon in Florida has been indicted for manslaughter after he wrongly removed a patient\u2019s liver instead of his spleen during an August 2024 procedure. Thomas Shaknovsky, 44, was indicted by a grand jury in Tallahassee on Monday after prosecutors said &#8230; <a title=\"Florida surgeon indicted after removing liver instead of spleen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/florida-surgeon-indicted-after-removing-liver-instead-of-spleen\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida surgeon indicted after removing liver instead of spleen\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}