Florida Surgeon Charged After Removing Wrong Organ, Killing Patient

A Florida surgeon has been charged in connection with a patient’s death after removing the man’s liver instead of his spleen during surgery. This wasn’t an isolated mistake—it was the surgeon’s second wrong-organ removal.

The surgeon operated on the patient believing they needed a splenectomy. Instead, they extracted the liver, a vital organ patients cannot survive without. The patient died as a result of the procedure.

According to reports, the surgeon had previously removed the wrong organ in another surgery, raising serious questions about how this person continued practicing medicine after the first incident. The case highlights failures in surgical protocols and oversight that are supposed to prevent exactly this type of catastrophic error.

The charges suggest prosecutors believe the surgeon’s negligence rose to the level of criminal culpability rather than simple medical malpractice.