A Florida surgeon mistakenly removed a man’s liver instead of his spleen, causing him to die on the operating table, a lawyer for the man’s widow alleges.
William Bryan, 70, of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, underwent surgery on Aug. 21, at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast hospital in Miramar, Florida, because of spleen abnormalities, according to a statement from the personal injury firm Zarzaur Law, based in Pensacola, Florida.
How?
Shaknovsky told Beverly Bryan her husband’s spleen was so diseased that it was four times bigger than normal and it had moved to the other side of his body
Oh, of course. I’m sure organs do that sort of thing all the time.
I mean, there is an extremely rare condition where basically all of your internal organs are mirrored or flipped from their normal orientation… (situs inversus, roughly 1 in 10,000 people are estimated to have it)
But…
If that were the case here, it’d be immediately obvious to any one with basic anatomical knowledge.
Hope this dumbass goes to jail.
Hope this dumbass goes to jail.
Why? Unless intent can be proven, this is a fuck-up and nothing else. Jailtime would benefit literally no one in this case.
My appendix was apparently on the other side. It took them forever to diagnose and I lived with chronic appendicitis as a result for over a year. That was fun. It took my ass going septic and going to the ER for them to even bother to run a CT and find the source of the problem. Even when I said are you sure this isn’t appendicitis? No raiderkev, your appendix is on the other side. This is just indigestion. Fuck you urgent care.
