Florida doctor removes wrong organ, resulting in patient's death (2024)

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

Link. Supposed to be a laparoscopic splenectomy, but he instead removed the liver. Not a lot of detail on exactly what happened, but I can see squeezing a spleen thru a laparoscope, but it seems a tall order for a liver.

[LSLGuy]

Here’s the existing thread on point:

Man dies from "splenectomy" where they removed his LIVER instead!

This is insane! They were away from home, and he had abdominal pain and a doctor recommended that he have a semi-urgent splenectomy - and they removed his LIVER instead! How could that even happen, unless the man had a massively enlarged spleen which is a very real possibility? I’m not a physician, but those organs are not the same, to put it lightly (although the liver does take over the duties of the spleen if the latter is removed). Apparently, he’d done something like this before.

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

Thanks. Can be closed.

[puzzlegal]

Yup, one thread is probably the right number.