Poor Infection Control

Poor Infection Control This story is about a domain in his twenties named Michael Skolnik. He was born in March of 1979 and died in June of 2004. He was the solely child of his parents. It all started one day bandage he was doing normal activity, and he passed out in September of 2001. His parents took him to the hospital and a CT scan showed the slight possibility of a colloid cyst, that whatever the two to three millimeter dot was, it was not symptomatic. His amaze consulted with a heading surgeon who said that it was urgent to place Michael in intensive care unit for observation.The neurosurgeon said that Michael needed to have brain surgery indoors two days. It was supposed to be a three hour operation, and Michael was only supposed to have to spend six days in the hospital. The neurosurgeon explained to Michaels mother that he had done many of these procedures before, and that he real didnt even have to go inside Michaels brain to re touch the cyst. He said that the cyst was at that place and was blocking the noetic spinal fluid from flowing. The three hour operation ended up conclusioning six hours without a cyst ever being found. Meanwhile, strenuous manipulation had been done to Michaels brain.His six day hospital retain became five months in ICU, Twenty-two months in other medical institutions, and the last six months of his life at home, in his parents testify ICU. Upon the hospitals further examination of Michaels CT scan, it became clear that the neurosurgeons pressure to rush Michael into surgery was unwarranted. This marked the low base of a Thirty-two month long nightmare of brain surgeries, infections, pulmonary embolisms, respiratory arrest, vision impairment, paralysis, psychosis, severe seizure disorder, short-term memory loss, octuple organ failure, and near total dependence and disability.Michael could not eat, speak, or move anything precisely his right hand. Almost every day during this traumatic time, Michael was so mi serable that he actually would use his sole limb soften to shape his fingers into a gun, and hold them to his temple. This 64 EMT and nursing scholarly person was now totally helpless and had the cognitive ability of a terce grader. Michaels medical bills amounted to be 4. 5 million dollars, and his legal bills were notwithstanding beginning. His parents listened to a doctor that had claimed to have performed many surgeries finally admit in a legal deposition that Michaels procedure had only been his entropy surgery ever performed.Despite all their attempts to research the doctors background, this was the first time they had ever heard the truth about his level of experience. They thence knew they had to do something, knowing their son was never going to come back, but they wanted to make sure that it did not happen to anyone elses family. triad years after Michaels death this parents fought for mendelevium profile transparency and disclosure in Colorado. They had found out t hat there were other medical malpractice cases pending and a number of formal complaints to the gore of Medical Examiners regarding this medical predator.At that time, none of this background information was available to the public, so they worked to change that. On May 24, 2007 Colorado Governor Bill Ritter gestural into law The Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act, which became effective on January 2, 2008. In 2009 their organization Colorado Citizens for Accountability, launched PatientsRightToKnow. org, which allows you to find out what physician background reportage is available to you in your state.