Latest Publicity Stunt: Negligent Vulcan Imaging Associates Sponsors Mountain Brook Basketball Game

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In the latest public relations exercise for negligent radiologists Vulcan Imaging Associates, in Feb., 2025 they announced sponsoring a Mountain Brook Schools Girls Basketball (the regional championship at Jacksonville State). Vulcan paid for the ticket of the first 100 student attendees to sign up.   Vulcan Imaging has in the past sponsored events local to Birmingham, AL. near affluent communities.   I urge Mountain Brook and any other organization that is approached by this company to SERIOUSLY RECONSIDER their offer. Please look around the internet and due some due diligence on them before accepting.  The service of these MD's, is GREATLY lacking (they are also NOT TRUSTWORTHY, REPUTABLE, ACCOUNTABLE OR PROFESSIONAL), and in-part, because of their doctor's errors, I was l left with SEVEN FIGURES in damages in my own situation. The 40 MD strong radiology group is a partner of Saint Vincent's recently acquired by the University Of Alabama At Birmingham (UAB) (from Ascension).   I was a patient of Vulcan Imaging MD Michael Brant Ruff who missed 6 inches of infection in my head / neck and evidence of a broken skull injury I almost died from in 2019. I include my April, 2022 call with Vulcan's Kim Mooney. She presides over 37 radiologists doctors in their group. I was told by Mooney that they "100% Stand By" a report of their radiologist who missed serious injuries in the MRI. She did not elaborate on who "they" were however. Mooney does not possess a medical license. I was also told they do not consult with patients and there was nothing their company could do in regards to my request to have a 2019 MRI scan reread, in which their doctor Michael Brant Ruff, stated I had no injuries and in which evidence of around 6 inches head trauma and infection can be observed. They would not put me in contact with the doctor or attempt to correct the error of their doctor.   Mooney gave me the phone number to reach the company CEO Eric Blackman (strangely she would not transfer me to him or his voicemail despite working in the same office with him).   More on my attempt to call (University Of Tennessee honors graduate) Neuroradiology specialist Dr. Michael Brant Ruff MD (Vulcan Imaging):  I'm a patient attempting to have a misdiagnosed MRI reread (Broken Skull). The truth of my issue is I had broken the underside of my skull, over about a year the wound became infected and infested with some type of parasite.

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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. All right, latest publicity stunt by Vulcan

00:14Imaging Associates. They are a Birmingham, Alabama based association of radiological

00:21medical doctors. And according to this, they sponsored a girls basketball game involving

00:28the city of Mountain Brook. And according to a February 18th Facebook posting, it reads,

00:36thanks to Vulcan Imaging Associates, the first 100 students to sign up to attend the girls basketball

00:41regional championship on Thursday at Jacksonville State, have their ticket fee covered. They have

00:47a track record of regularly sponsoring events in affluent communities around Birmingham. They like

00:56customers and patients who've got money. I was a patient customer of a Vulcan Imaging Associates

01:02doctor, and I'll go into my own situation with what happened to me. And if this company approaches

01:09your school organization, et cetera, attempting to do a sponsorship deal, please think twice

01:19and do some due diligence and investigate people's experience dealing with them. Because in my own

01:26case, I found they were not reputable, not trustworthy. I would not, again, trust my healthcare with their

01:35doctors. What am I talking about? Well, you don't have to take my word alone for it. But this review was

01:42posted to the Better Business Bureau website dated 27-2023. Cheryl Ann writes, I have left five to six

01:54messages and I cannot get a return call. I am in need of a 2017 MRI report of the brain that was used as a

02:03comparison for my January 30th, 2023 MRI. I have left messages with both the administrative office and

02:13medical records to no avail. Unfortunately, I will have to drive across town to their office to request

02:20a copy. This is very poor customer service. And this resonates with my own experience, as you'll hear.

02:26I had an MRI of my head handled by Vulcan Imaging Associates and St. Vincent's in Trustville, now UAB,

02:36in 2019. In my own scan, I was told I had no injuries. I knew better because I was close to death.

02:44Almost died from this. Went and got those pictures. I'll put the pictures up here in this video.

02:49As you can see in this MRI, I've got about six inches diameter infection inside my head.

02:56Vulcan Imaging Associates, Neuroradiological Specialist Doctor, Michael Brandt Ruff, MD,

03:03went to school for 10 years to do his job. And he wrote in my records and report, which you can see

03:11in this video also, I scanned these in. He said I had no injury present. And so this created a very

03:17uncomfortable situation that has yet to be resolved and is outstanding as of this recording,

03:26April 4th, 2025. I took these issues to basically all concerned. And they all refused to correct

03:36their error, admit their mistake, do a reread. Oh yeah. And they sent me a bill for this MRI.

03:43And it was somewhere north of $600.

03:46Interestingly, Vulcan was working with St. Vincent's Ascension, who did the scan for me.

03:54On November 1st, 2024, Ascension sold this location and five other hospitals to University of Alabama

04:02at Birmingham. And this whole system has been rebranded UAB St. Vincent's.

04:08Why did Ascension sell and leave the area? My story is definitely something that the public needs

04:14to be aware of. Because the practices that were allowed to occur in the St. Vincent's hospitals

04:21and medical facilities were probably enough to shut this place down. Just a personal perspective,

04:26my injury and all the complications, my own issue is worth several million dollars.

04:32All right. So today we're trying to follow up on the Michael Brandt Ruff MRI that I had done in 2019.

04:39I was referred to this scan by Northside Medical Associates, a nurse, James Frankie Currum.

04:47This is now Complete Health, owned by Faro's Capital. This is located off of Happy Hollow Road,

04:54Trustville, Alabama, headquarters in Pell City.

04:57Michael Brandt Ruff is a doctor who read the MRI for St. Vincent's Ambulatory Healthcare Network, LLC.

05:10That's Ascension.

05:12If you're following my documentation, you'll note here that in Birmingham, Alabama,

05:19we got a real big problem with responsibility, accountability, and radiology.

05:26And this week I talked to the two main radiology companies in Birmingham, Alabama.

05:35And I recently spoke with Doyle Stewart, CEO of Birmingham Radiological Group.

05:43According to their website, they have 38 radiologists who work with them.

05:47And here in this call, you'll hear me speaking with Kim Mooney.

05:51She is the Administrative Coordinator at Vulcan Imaging Associates.

05:58And she states that they have 37 radiologists who work with them.

06:04So if you've got radiology issues, you go into a medical practice or hospital, doctor,

06:13you have an x-ray, MRI, CT scan.

06:15These are the types of doctors, and these may be the actual doctors who will be looking at your scan in the Birmingham area.

06:26And yeah, according to my findings here, not very reassuring.

06:31If your scan is misread, you discover this and you try to seek a redress on these misdiagnosis issues.

06:41It's not encouraging, my experience here.

06:47You have reached Vulcan Imaging.

06:50Vulcan Imaging, Ms. Kim.

06:51Yes, ma'am.

06:52I called last week.

06:54I was trying to get in touch with one of your radiologists, Dr. Michael Brandt-Ruff.

06:59I had an MRI scan that was looked at by this doctor in 2019.

07:06I got a report with his signature on it, saying I don't have injuries.

07:12However, in the MRI images themselves, I have evidence of a very serious head trauma-based injury.

07:20And yeah, I was told last week that you guys were trying to have this doctor get in touch with me.

07:26So it's been about a week, and I just wanted to see what the status of that was.

07:30Okay, so I did look into this, and based on, I mean, there's not anything else we can do,

07:40so there's not anything that Dr. Ruff can do to assist you with that, since the report's already been read.

07:47So there's not anything we can do.

07:49Well, I beg to differ.

07:50This was a $700 MRI scan.

07:53This doctor was paid to have this scan looked at, and he did not note the injuries.

07:58So he is at fault, and so is Vulcan Imaging.

08:03We stand by that report, 100%.

08:05Okay, well, the report is an error, 100%, ma'am.

08:09Can I speak to somebody in management?

08:13Yes, sir.

08:14I am the practice administrator.

08:17Okay, can I speak to the head of the company?

08:22Let's see.

08:23Who's above you?

08:25The chairman of the board.

08:27Okay, well, I need to speak to somebody in authority, because you're an error with your statement, ma'am.

08:33Not professional.

08:36I am so sorry you feel that way, but when you stand by...

08:38Well, it's not how I feel.

08:40It's the facts, ma'am.

08:42Now, what you...

08:44If that's...

08:45If what you're stating, I would...

08:47I mean, we would respond...

08:49You know, maybe if you consult an attorney to have...

08:52Well, I mean, if I can't speak to somebody on the telephone about this, I'd be happy to come clear it up in person.

08:59You're more than welcome to come up here and talk to whoever you need to talk to.

09:08Because this is a serious issue.

09:12I understand that from your perspective.

09:15Yeah, your excuses aren't going to cut it either, ma'am.

09:17It's not an excuse, sir.

09:21I really don't know how to help.

09:23What you should do is...

09:24Okay, you're in business, all right?

09:26Well, you have doctors who went to school for 10 years.

09:29They're millionaires, okay?

09:30They're reading radiology reports for hospitals and other doctors, okay?

09:35What you need to do is...

09:37You need to have them do their job correctly.

09:39And if they miss major injuries in patients that they almost died from, such as myself,

09:45you need to simply make an attempt to correct this error.

09:48Now, I could get in touch with Dr. Michael Brant Ruff.

09:51I could supply my records.

09:53He could look at these images again.

09:54We can clear this up in a few minutes.

09:56Could I please talk to him?

09:59No, sir.

09:59I can't reach out to Dr. Ruff.

10:02We don't consult with patients.

10:05That's a very sorry excuse, ma'am.

10:09I'm so sorry.

10:09That's our policy.

10:11Let's see.

10:12What can I do to help you?

10:14Let's see.

10:16Let's see.

10:18Eric Blackman is my CEO.

10:23Why are you mentioning his name?

10:25Why don't you just connect me to him?

10:27He's not in the office.

10:30That's pretty convenient, huh?

10:32Well, it's the truth.

10:35Well, I don't believe you.

10:36I'm so sorry about that.

10:39Yeah, me too.

10:39What I can do is I can give you, let's see, his direct number is?

10:51How many radiologists work for your company, ma'am?

10:53Um, I have, uh, 37.

10:59So you have 37.

11:01Um, why don't you take this scan, call somebody right now and have them look at this scan and

11:05correct this issue for me.

11:07But that is not how radiology works.

11:10We can understand.

11:11Yeah, you're non-professional.

11:12We've already established that.

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