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MAGALIA-PINES FAMILY PRACTICE MEDICAL CLINIC |
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Provider Detail |
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Don Sakal, MMSc., PA-C / CEO is a veteran Green Beret Medic and National Health Service Corps Physician Assistant, Midlevel Practitioner with Master of Medical Science (MMSc) degree from Emory University School of Medicine. Don administrates the entirety of the CMS-RHC program and the clinic as a small business and passed state inspection without any shortcomings. Don has Family Practice, Internal and Emergency Medicine and Surgery experience and is a National Board Certified Physician Assistant (PA-C) licensed to practice medicine in California and Washington. He was previously licensed in Minnesota, Texas and Illinois. Don has unlimited DEA prescribing privileges. When Don attended the Emory Physician Assistant Program in Atlanta, Georgia his Master’s Thesis was published and won the National Technical Writing contest in PA-Today. Don’s undergraduate degrees are Bachelor of Science in Biology with minor in Chemistry and emphasis in Microbiology from Southern Oregon State University in Ashland, Oregon, and an Associate Math/Science degree from Lassen College in Susanville, California. Don was a Medical Technical Assistant, Licensed Vocational Nurse and California Peace Officer for the California Department of Corrections at the Susanville and Vacaville Correctional Centers (Prisons) and provided medical care to convicts for years to finance his ongoing schooling. Don helped guide the Susanville SERT (swat team) development in its infancy in the mid-1980s. As a Special Forces Green Beret Medic & Surgical Instructor, Don taught guerilla surgery (emergency surgical procedures for the warfare situation, such as, debridement of gun-shot wounds and amputations) and worked the Aid Station just outside Fort Bragg, North Carolina where he trained other Green Berets. Don also helped provide medical coverage for Delta tryouts before its mission in Iran to free the U.S. hostages. Don offers outpatient Family Practice Medicine for all ages, to include men’s health issues and various minor surgery, such as, excising various skin cancers. |
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Medical Provider and Chief Executive Officer |
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Don Sakal, MMSc., PA-C / CEO |
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Phone: 530-873-1676 or 873-4285 |
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Don Sakal, MMSc., PA-C / CEO |
