Should a surgeon be able to distinguish a spleen from a liver?

There’s already a thread relating to this :wink: . With that said, IANA any sort of medical professional, and I’m nearly certain I could tell the organs in question apart. IMO there is something very deeply wrong when a room full of medical professionals (who presumably had to pass anatomy classes to even BE there) collectively manage to get it wrong. The “surgeon” certainly was not the only person in the room with working eyes, and I’d be horrified if said “surgeon” was in possession of the highest-functioning brain present.