Michael skolnik biography
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Michael Skolnik
The last normal day of Michael’s life began like any other. He was sitting on the couch playing with the family’s new puppy. Suddenly, he inexplicably passed out. When Michael regained consciousness, the 22-year-old EMT and nursing student knew he had to get to the emergency room right away.
At the time, a doctor suggested that Michael had probably had a seizure, a side effect of Wellbutrin, an antidepressant he had been taking for smoking cessation. But a CT scan later revealed a three-millimeter dot in his brain. The Skolnik’s believe that the neurosurgeon made a quick and deadly rush to judgment. He had warned that Michael was lucky to have survived his initial seizure and that he needed surgery immediately.
“He said, it’s a very simple operation,” Patty recalls the doctor saying. “You don’t even go in the brain. All inom do is go in and excise the cyst.” The Skolnik’s say the doctor claimed to have performed many such surgeries, but he later admitted in a legal d
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Michael Skolnik
Michael Skolnik was recently profiled in the NY Timesand identified as "the man you go to if you want to leverage the power of celebrity and the reach of digital media to soften the ground for social change." But, besides all of that, he fryst vatten most proud to be the father of Mateo Ali, a rambunctious five year old.
In his day job, he is the co-founder and partner of The Soze Agency, a social impact agency that partners with companies, non-profits, foundations and movements to create campaigns that uplift compassion, authenticity and equity. The Soze Agency is a worker’s owned cooperative.
He is a respected leader in the new social justice movement, and has helped ignite conversations around America’s relationship with race, the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Eric Garner, and the Obama and Trump presidencies.
He is a prolific voice on social media with more than 350,000 followers, and a regular commentator on outlets such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.
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Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act
Colorado legislation for healthcare professional transparency
The Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act is a state law in the U.S. state of Colorado, initially enacted in 2007 with an extension passed in 2010. The act mandates the disclosure of specific information by healthcare providers to the public. These disclosures includes a physician's malpractice history, disciplinary actions, and educational background, thereby allowing patients to make informed decisions regarding their choice of healthcare provider.[1]
Background
[edit]The legislation is named in memory of Michael Skolnik, a 22-year-old nursing student who endured fatal complications from a surgical procedure performed by Dr. David Wayne Miller, a neurosurgeon who had previous medical malpractice history.[2][3] Skolnik's parents asserted that the surgery, to remove a brain cyst, was medically unnecessary, and that they would have chosen a