Son of 2nd patient who died after seeing Florida surgeon speaks out

A year before a man died under his care, Florida surgeon Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky had another alleged mishap in the operating room, court records show.

After his mother’s surgery, Weyman Dorsett worried something was wrong.

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His unease grew as he watched an ICU doctor check his mother’s medical charts.

“I’ll never forget and it’ll never leave my mind, the look on that doctor’s face as he was reading through the files,” Dorsett, 53, said. “He was just shaking his head, like, ‘what in the living hell is going on?’”