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”.
My dude, I run into people who wanted to have that “I’m willing to lose my job over this” fight in the hospital a few times over something that would kill me. And they were on the killing me side. And I know they were willing to take it to losing their job because they did.