The order says Shaknovsky lied and gave several different accounts of what happened during the surgery, finally admitting that at one point during the operation he fired a stapling device "blindly" into the abdomen and removed an organ he "believed to be a spleen."
The order details that after the organ was removed, Bryan began to severely hemorrhage and went into cardiac arrest. Despite this, the order says, Shaknovsky continued dissecting even though there was "no visibility" and he never called for a clamp or cauterizer. Witnesses confirmed that Shaknovsky "blindly" fired the stapling device into Bryan’s abdomen.
The order says Shaknovsky removed Bryan’s liver but identified it as a spleen, despite the two organs being different sizes, colors and on totally different sides of the body.
"The staff looked at the readily-identifiable liver on the table and were shocked when Dr. Shaknovsky told them it was a spleen," the order reads. "One staff member felt sick to their stomach."
