MONTGOMERY – Calling a Florida doctor “an immediate danger to his patients and the public,” the Alabama Medical Licensure Commission has temporarily suspended Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky’s license to practice medicine in Alabama.
The move came following the death in August of a Muscle Shoals man he had operated on in Florida.
The commission set a hearing for Dec. 18 to determine whether Shaknovsky’s medical license should be revoked, the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners said in a news release.
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Licensed in Alabama since 2016, Shaknovsky allegedly removed the liver of 70-year-old Bill Bryan instead of the spleen during what was meant to be a splenectomy, which led to Bryan’s death. Bryan and his wife Beverly were vacationing in Destin when Bill began having pain on his left side.
According to the Licensure Commission’s order, Shaknovsky “may constitute an immediate danger to his patients and the public.”
The suspension was initiated after the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners filed a complaint against Shaknovsky, prompting the Commission’s decision.
The Medical Licensure Commission has the authority to issue, suspend and revoke medical licenses for practitioners of medicine and osteopathy in Alabama.
The Alabama Board of Medical Examiners is the state regulatory and law enforcement agency responsible for regulating the practice of medicine in Alabama.
