Doctor Faces Murder Charges in Surgery Death

0:00A Florida doctor named Thomas Shignowski faces second-degree murder charges after a grand jury indicted him for a patient's death during surgery. He was supposed to remove a 70-year-old man's spleen, but took out the liver instead, leading to massive blood loss that killed the guy right on. The operating table. This happened on August 21, 2024, at a hospital in Miramar Beach. The patient came from muscle shows Alabama for a routine laparoscopic splinectomy, but things went catastrophically wrong in the operating room. Walton County Sheriff Michael Atkinson says they're following the facts no matter where they lead and their hearts go out to the victim's family. Dealing with this nightmare, the community expects full professionalism as the case unfolds. Investigators from the Sheriff's Office teamed up with the state attorney's office and medical experts for a deep probe and the grand jury found. Enough probable cause to charge criminal conduct under Florida law. Shignowski got arrested Monday morning and is now behind bars, with the legal process

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