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Florida surgeon ‘devastated’ over death of patient after removing liver instead of spleen
(www.theguardian.com)
Thomas Shaknovsky botched the surgery of William Bryan, 70, who died on the operating table
According to Shaknovksy’s deposition, after removing Bryan’s liver, the surgeon instructed a nurse to label the organ as a “spleen” – and he also identified it as a spleen in Bryan’s postoperative notes. Shaknovsky later said he had been “mentally compromised” at the time of Bryan’s death, explaining that he was “devastated, demoralized, crying over his passing, felt that I failed him”.
As someone living in Florida I’m not surprised. The doctors down here almost killed me three times and I’ve only been here since 2019. The situation is fucking appalling.
Yeah.... Florida is kinda known in medicine as a place to go if you want to do a bunch of fraud. The regulations are laxed and it has a massive population of elderly people without nearby family members to advocate for their care.
It used to be a bunch worse before Obamacare passed and reimbursement became tied to patient outcomes. I think at one point over half of the medical fraud in my field was happening in florida alone.
Oh god yes. The largest health care provider in the Villages was up to its neck in fraud. https://elevenflo.com/blog/villages-health-system
I never went there because their admin people seemed kind of nuts. but the place I did go to for a while, Premier medical, also got caught doing fraud.
https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/enforcement/premier-medical-associates-agree-to-pay-750000-to-resolve-claims-of-false-billing/
And they were the ones who almost killed me, kept giving me antibiotics for a fungal infection, then decided I had leukemia, sent me to a specialist who refused let me make an appointment. This went on for 6 weeks while I was running a fever and lost 20 pounds.
In the mean time, I was on the waiting list for another gp. He spotted what was wrong right off, put me on anti fungals and I was better in a couple of days.
Retire to Florida they all said. Fucking good way to freaking die I say.
Yeah, I have some family in florida who I constantly have to tell to get a second opinion before having operations. I always tell them when in doubt to go to a hospital associated with a university medical program. At least then they have to uphold some kind of standard of care so they don't lose their residency programs under further scrutiny.
I'm currently splitting my specialist between Orlando health and Advent health over close to Orlando. Pretty much everyone in Sumter country will just end up killing you. It's common knowledge that the local hospitals are just death traps.
University of Florida took them over from the Morse family to try and fix the mess. But they are struggling to improve care. The Morse family that created the Villages, are some seriously evil dudes and the health systems they created show it,