00:00All right, as always, you can go to YouTube channel My Medical Nightmare and see 40 plus
00:07hours video on everything that happened to me.
00:10All right, according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office
00:15of Inspector General, dated July 10th, 2025, UAB Medical West agreed to pay $100,000 for
00:25allegedly violating patient dumping statute by failing to provide stabilizing treatment.
00:33And this location is at 5,000 Medical West Way, Bessemer.
00:37The University of Alabama at Birmingham entered into a $100,000 settlement agreement with OIG.
00:46The agreement resolves allegations that UAB Medical West violated the Emergency Medical
00:52Treatment and Labor Act, EMTALA-MTALA.
00:56Based on its investigation, OIG concluded that in May 2023, UAB failed to provide stabilizing
01:05treatment to a patient who presented to their freestanding emergency department, ED or ER.
01:14Specifically, UAB Medical West diagnosed the patient with the emergency medical condition
01:20of acute urinary retention.
01:23The UAB West staff were unsuccessful in their attempts to catheterize the patient and failed
01:30to provide any pain relief.
01:31Although UAB Medical West had a urologist uncalled for the freestanding ED and access to specialized
01:39urology supplies at its main emergency department, UAB discharged the patient with instructions to
01:45drive himself to a different medical facility for a urology consultation and stabilizing treatment.
01:53I also was a patient and customer with UAB, and I'll go into my own issues briefly.
02:00The x-ray, MRI, and CT images you can see in this video, these are the injuries that I had
02:07in my upper neck and head when I stood five hours at the main UAB emergency department in downtown
02:16Birmingham in 2019.
02:19I never saw a doctor.
02:21My own experience dealing with University of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB medicine repeatedly
02:28is when I had a very serious health concern and time was of the essence.
02:35I was let down again and again, experienced stalling tactics.
02:41You can do some searches on my YouTube channel, and all of my incidents with UAB have been thoroughly
02:47documented.
02:48I was put on a waiting list to see a UAB neurology specialist in 2019.
02:54Three-month waiting list referred by OrthoAlabama Spine and Sports orthopedic doctor Perry L. Savage Sr.
03:04As the appointment date drew closer, I received a phone call and was told that because they were
03:11moving locations, I would have to wait an additional fourth month before I could see a doctor.
03:18Likewise, I've got a recorded telephone call with UAB primary care.
03:24In Leeds, Alabama for March 2023, the young lady on the phone tells me that I will not be able
03:33to see a primary care doctor, that's a regular jack-of-all-trades family doctor at their location
03:40immediately or in a timely fashion, and in fact would have to be put on an eight-month waiting list.
03:46I'll explain my unbelievable experience at the UAB emergency room in 2019.
03:55Yeah, standing room only, and the only way they would admit patients out of the triage queue
04:01is if they collapsed and fainted on the emergency department waiting area floor, which several
04:10patients did during my five-hour wait.
04:13All right, so patient dumping is a reality when it comes to dealing with UAB.
04:18It's good to see some action being taken out there.
04:21A lot of words and talk are exchanged.
04:24Words and talk have a little to no value, in my own opinion.
04:29Additionally, UAB recently closed the deal to acquire the St. Vincent's Ascension Hospitals
04:38in the Birmingham, Alabama area.
04:41Their business methodology and philosophy will be applied to these new facilities as well.
04:48And anybody who goes to these places with your own health care in mind needs to be aware
04:55of the realities.
04:56So, in brief, I had a broken skull injury.
05:02I had this from around July 2018.
05:07I went around to many, many doctors and hospitals in Birmingham.
05:12I tried to get this thing diagnosed.
05:17And we're not even talking about treatment.
05:19Just trying to find out what happened to me.
05:21And I repeatedly found that the doctors, they wouldn't diagnose this thing.
05:32They wouldn't look at it for some reason or another.
05:34I don't have insurance and I have no source of income.
05:38And I think this may be part of the reason.
05:40In the hospital, this is a violation of a United States federal law.
05:46And this is EMTALA.
05:48E-M-T-A-L-A.
05:51And this states that when you go to a hospital in the United States of America,
05:57the hospital is obligated to treat your injuries.
05:59But it hinges on the diagnosis.
06:05And what I found happened to me was the hospitals were repeatedly misdiagnosed me
06:10in order to circumvent, comply with this law.
06:14Alright.
06:15But what I did was, okay, so I'd go in and I'd say,
06:20man, my neck feels like it's broken.
06:22So, they'd come back and they'd say,
06:24oh, you just pulled a muscle.
06:26And they would tell me there were no injuries that showed up in the CT, x-rays, and MRI scans that I had done.
06:35Okay.
06:36Well, there's another law in America.
06:39And this allows patients to obtain their medical records.
06:43And, yeah, I found out some of the medical records were edited to cover the doctors' and nurses' errors.
06:59But, yeah, I got my own records and here's what I found in many of them.
07:05And in the images.
07:06You can get your own images that are taken also.
07:09So, in the images, exactly in the area where I had the pain that I went into the hospital and complained about,
07:17I found that my skull was broken.
07:19It's in the basilar area of my skull, around the occipital condyle, condylar canal, possibly forming magnum.
07:26This is a very serious injury.
07:27It had a hole in the bottom of my skull.
07:31And there's fluid inside your skull, between your brain and your skull.
07:36And this leaked out into a wound in the upper area of my neck.
07:41And this all shows up in imagery.
07:43So, because I couldn't get proper diagnosis and treatment, this area became gradually infected.
07:55And then later I found out it was infested by microorganisms, parasites, and worms.
08:03And all these things can be seen in the MRIs and CT scans.
08:09It was that bad.
08:10All right, so this brings me to our video today.
08:18And this deals with UAB Hospital.
08:22So, I went to UAB and they have some expertise in many of the areas that I think concern my injury.
08:34And we never got to test those because they wouldn't see me.
08:43So, yeah, I went to the hospital.
08:45It was in June 2019.
08:47And I was triaged.
08:52I complained of, I felt, I told them I thought my neck was broken or my skull was broken.
08:59And I also said that I possibly had a CSF leak.
09:02So, I took in past imagery, MRI, CTs, and x-rays that show the injury itself.
09:14And I showed this to the triage nurse.
09:21So, I was triaged.
09:25And I stood in the waiting room.
09:28And I waited there for five hours.
09:34So, after five hours, it was like one or two in the morning.
09:37And I couldn't stand any longer.
09:42The waiting room, it was like full of people.
09:45There were no chairs or seating available.
09:51So, yeah, I had this injury.
09:53I stood five hours.
09:54I was holding on to consciousness.
09:58The best that I could, hopefully, try to see a doctor.
10:05And the doctor, they never saw me.
10:07I was never called back to the back of this hospital to be looked at.
10:14So, yeah, I believe that the UAB, they're using this method of waiting out patients with the five-hour waits.
10:27And when I was there, yeah, I heard about people who were sitting there for like ten hours.
10:33So, yeah, I think UAB, they're using the triage waits as another method to circumvent EMTALA.
10:44They're waiting people out.
10:46So, if you stand there for five hours and you can't stand any longer and you leave, they don't have to see you.
10:54So, I filed a complaint against University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital from this visit, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
11:06So, they launched an investigation, and they investigated UAB Hospital for my complaint.
11:16And I got this back in January of 2021, and it's from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
11:29And they tell me that they did not confirm a violation of the emergency care obligations for UAB Hospital.
11:43So, yeah, I think this is very unfortunate.
11:49My concerns are valid.
11:51And I'll go into what happened to me briefly.
11:55So, yeah, I went in there, stood for five hours, was not attended to.
12:00Okay, my triage condition, I just explained it.
12:04You can see here, these are my medical images.
12:09This is the condition that I had when I was waiting for five hours and not attended to by this hospital.
12:19So, yeah, the lobby, the waiting area, it was full of people.
12:27There were a lot of homeless people in this waiting room, a lot of drug addicts.
12:32And I was standing near the front desk.
12:34I watched the people come in and out, and I watched them call the triage list to the back to be attended to.
12:43And their triage list is strange, all right?
12:51By and large, okay, I had this injury, all right?
12:55But by and large, the people they were calling back to be attended to, these were like withdrawing drug addicts and stuff.
13:05And I don't know how this is listed as a more important condition than what I had, for example.
13:17But, yeah, there were mosquitoes that flew around inside this waiting area.
13:23That's not good.
13:25Mosquitoes are a disease vector.
13:27A mosquito is like a flying syringe, all right?
13:29So, the mosquito flies through the waiting area, and it lands, and it sucks the blood out of one person, all right?
13:39So, if it lands on you or lands on me, this can pass diseases around.
13:48And this is not good, especially UAB.
13:53Not acceptable.
13:54I got water.
14:01They had a public water dispensing machine.
14:04I poured water into a styrofoam cup.
14:07Small black worms dropped out of this machine into the cup that I poured water into, and I can't drink that.
14:16But, the other thing that I noticed, the atmosphere of the triage area in the waiting area of UAB hospital in the emergency department, it's like a college dorm room.
14:32Yeah, and many of the nurses there and the medical staff that you can see, they are visible young, like incredibly young.
14:43And then another thing, yeah, around this emergency department in UAB hospital, there are all these fast food restaurants.
14:53And the nurses and the staff that worked in this place, they had, you know, takeout fast food and drinks.
15:06They were just laying around on the triage table, you know, right next to all this expensive medical equipment.
15:19They had like Domino's pizza boxes and all this stuff, and they're sitting there eating at the same time they're attending to these triage patients.
15:37And this is disturbing.
15:40This is not a professional environment, that's my opinion.
15:47But, yeah, UAB, they have plenty of money, obviously.
15:51You can look around at the south side of downtown Birmingham, you can see all the real estate that's owned by UAB.
15:59And then all the other companies that exist around UAB that service UAB.
16:05Between 2018 and 2019, I was an emergency department patient at Ascension St. Vincent's East Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.
16:15I believe I had broken my neck.
16:17I had an X-ray, two CT scans, and later an MRI looked at by Ascension St. Vincent's doctors.
16:25Each time they had told me I had no injuries in this area, I knew their diagnosis was an error as my condition worsened.
16:33The area became infected and infested with parasites by summer of 2019.
16:39I almost died.
16:40I obtained my medical records from your hospital along with the X-ray, CT, MRI imagery, and discovered the truth of my injury.
16:47I had broken bone in the underside of my skull in the area of the condylar canal and occipital condyle.
16:53How the doctors could admit such a large and serious injury over multiple hospital visits is inexcusable.
16:59I believe some element of organized corruption may exist in this hospital.
17:04I believe I may have been a victim of patient dumping in the course of my seeking treatment, which is a violation of EMTALA, E-M-T-A-L-A.
17:14When I told medical staff associated with Ascension about my discovery that I had been misdiagnosed repeatedly,
17:21I was personally attacked and my psychological state was challenged.
17:26This is reflected in medical records I obtained later.
17:30I could not obtain proper treatment or diagnosis for this injury because doctors and nurses that I would subsequently have encounters with
17:41would only entertain what the erroneous Ascension ER findings were.
17:46My mother, who was a nurse for 20 years, had the misfortune of working in an Ascension hospital
17:52when I questioned my MRR findings involving St. Vincent's Ambulatory Healthcare Network, LLC,
17:59and Dr. Michael Brandt Ruff, MD, radiologist, in March 2019.
18:05My mother, who was a nurse for 20 years and worked in the Ascension hospital,
18:08she was terminated from her job there around the same time.
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