An Alabama man is dead after he went to a Florida hospital to seek treatment for lower left abdominal pain while on vacation. The surgeon who performed emergency surgery on 70-year-old William Bryan mistakenly removed his liver instead of his spleen.

Now his widow, Beverly Bryan, is fighting for “justice” for her husband of 33 years.

The couple were at their rental property in Destin, Florida when William began experiencing “severe abdominal pain.”

William went to Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital where he was told he would need surgery because of an abnormality with his spleen. Beverly initially wanted to wait until the couple returned home, but according to Joe Zarzaur, the Bryan family’s attorney, Thomas Shaknovsky warned William he “could experience serious complications if he left the hospital.”

The 70-year-old opted to stay and underwent an emergency hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy three days after he first visited the hospital.

During the procedure, Shaknovsky is accused of removing William’s liver instead of his spleen causing “immediate and catastrophic blood loss, resulting in death.”