Totally Shameful: OrthoAlabama Sponsors Trussville Tribune "Player Of The Week" Feature

Birmingham, Alabama-based Orthopedic doctors OrthoAlabama Spine & Sports have once again partnered with the Trussville Tribune Newspaper, this time sponsoring a "Player Of The Week" feature, highlighting local youth sports participants. Shame on the Tribune for giving Perry Savage Sr. a platform to promote his negligent business. I paid $300 cash, waited 3 hours and believe I did not received adequate service (constituting a professional medical examination) for my time and money. When I told savage I had no insurance the exam quickly ended, he also asked me where I got the money to pay for the exam!

I was a patient & customer of OrthoAlabama Spine & Sports / Orthopedic Dr. Perry L. Savage Sr. MD & have outstanding & unresolved service issues from my visit regarding regarding a misdiagnosis from a 9/14/19 visit at their Birmingham, Alabama clinic. I present images of my own head in the video, clearly showing the issues (several inch diameter head trauma) which were not acknowledged by this 50 year professional, who graduated from The University Of Alabama School Of Medicine in 1968. I showed many of these images to Doctor Savage in the examination on a PC and was told they were normal and showed no problems, he told me no injury can be seen here. I paid this man $300 for his experienced opinion. In this call I speak with Orlean Bruce their office manager.



Physician Assistant Ben Jeter P.A.-C. sat in during this exam. He entered the room and never introduced himself. Dr. Savage never introduced him to me as well. When Savage wasn't looking at my CT, X-Ray and MRI images on the exam room PC, Jeter thumbed through the images. I showed the doctor a few of the frames containing my 3 inch diameter basilar skull damage and was told no injury appeared there even as I sat struggling to hold my head up on my shoulders after waiting 2 hours to see him. Jeter silently observed. When I left, this man told me someone in their office would call me about a UAB neurosurgery referral in a few days time (Why was I referred to a neurologist if the doctor said I had no injury?). This never happened, After about a week I had to call OrthoAlabama myself and found the appointment had been made although I never was notified. I was put on a 3 month waiting list for a referral at UAB. This injury needed immediate attention. This is not professional. I believe Savage had the skills to tell me I had a problem in this area even if he could not elaborate.



I believe I may have been "patient dumped" (a violation of EMTALA) in the course of my seeking treatment for my injury by Saint Vincent's Hospital doctors, Birmingham, Alabama (Ascension) and misdiagnoses were used to circumvent this law. This pronouncement made it virtually impossible to get an accurate diagnosis elsewhere. I was also disabled and could not claim disability. My psychological state was routinely challenged because I claimed the doctors had missed the main injury.