When Bill Bryan’s spleen ruptured, he was told the only path forward was surgery to remove it. So late in the day on August 21, his wife Beverly, her daughter, and Bill’s daughter hugged Bill good-bye as he was wheeled into the operating room. “I thought a splenectomy was a fairly simple procedure,” Beverly says. “It seemed like he would be in and out.” Less than an hour later, Beverly overheard an emergency announcement on the intercom for the operating room Bill was in. No one could answer her questions about what was happening. She decided to wait in the chapel, and eventually a doctor came in, accompanied by “a legion of people,” Beverly recalls. “They said that Bill had not survived.” Beverly had spent her career in health care, including as an emergency-medicine nurse, and she recalls questions swirling through her head. The day after Bill’s celebration-of-life service, she received a call from a medical examiner in Florida. The medical examiner, according to a Florida Department of Health report, said that a pathologist had found something suspicious in the specimen container the team had marked “spleen.” According to the medical examiner, the autopsy revealed that Bill’s spleen was still intact inside his body and appeared untouched. His liver was also gone and was in the container marked “spleen,” according to both the Department of Health’s report and a report from the Agency for Health Care Administration. Revisit Rachel Nuwer’s report from 2024 on the inexplicable medical mistakes known in the world of healthcare as “never events”: nymag.visitlink.me/E1Qxb8

I wasn't ever a baby like most people were. It was different

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