SUP Magazine: Patient Died After Surgeons Removed Wrong Organ, Lawsuit Alleges

The family of an Alabama man who died during surgery have sued the Florida hospital where it was performed, alleging that surgeons removed the wrong organ, U.S.A. Today reported. On August 18, 70-year-old William Bryan went to Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital in Walton County, FL, for a splenectomy, according to Joe Zarzaur, the Bryan family’s attorney. Bryan had begun to suffer “severe abdominal pain” while on vacation with his wife of 33 years, Beverly...