re: Man dies in Destin after surgeon removes liver instead of spleen

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Well you’d be dead so…

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and you completely missed the joke so...

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Dr Shaknovsky speaks fluent English and Russian.

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Get ready to utilize Russian, buddy

As a MD, my DO colleagues trained in the same residencies. Took the same exams, passed the same boards.

The difference was their 4 year medical education, which most of them took the same step exams too and likely had to do as well if not better than me.

So the stigma that they're inferior is misplaced.


This was just a shitty surgeon who likely didn't review his ct imaging if that was his excuse.

Yeh for a surgeon, wouldn’t the residency program be the only thing that “matters” really? I know there’s over simplifying it but it seems the 1000s of hours in surgery practice are what really matter and not the textbook class instruction from when they were 22-26

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Hide yo livah!

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my liver has already stopped speaking to me since it heard we're headed to Destin

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it seems the 1000s of hours in surgery practice are what really matter and not the textbook class instruction from when they were 22-26

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It really is, I would take an issue like this on a case by case basis looking at the individual, and not vilify an entire group.

NVM

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Dr Thomas J. Shaknovsky is an American general surgeon who attended Loyola University for his undergraduate degree. He received his medical degree from Midwestern in Downers Grove, Illinois and completed general surgery residency at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, New Jersey.

During his sophomore year of college, Dr Shaknovsky joined he U.S Army. Several military training exercises on Florida’s Emerald Coast led to him getting fond of the region. He remains a Major in the U.S. Army.

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This helps to confirm my long-held belief that military doctors above the rank of captain are generally quacks.

I once had a Lt. Col. diagnose my dislocated shoulder as “bursitis”.

I would caution blindly taking the word of a plaintiff attorney as gold. Typically the facts of the case aren’t as egregious as initially portrayed. In fact, I wonder if there is some question of sanctions regarding the attorney for putting out a video and calling for his privileges at other hospital to be pulled.