A job posting seeking a Spanish translator has been circulated online by Birmingham, AL. health clinic Christ Health Center. Born in raised in this area, in my own visit to their Woodlawn location in 2019 I felt out of place, in the main waiting area I observed 90% Spanish speakers and Latinos (20-30 people) and noted virtually no English spoken during my several minute wait. I believe many of these Spanish speakers were Illegal immigrants.
My own stance on the immigration issue is I believe Illegal immigration harms our communities in Birmingham, Alabama and The United States and people should not give their time and money to businesses that support illegal immigrants.
I also mention the Xerox machine and stacks of paperwork in the hallway of this clinic. The preoccupation of licensed medical staff in this location is apparently handing out paperwork to the many indigent and uninsured / unemployed patients who seek health treatment there. For my $100 the main thing I was given was some papers from one of these stacks that only referred me to yet another group of medical practices where I was told I could receive financial assistance and medical care.
1 Year On: a letter I was told by their lawyer would be sent to me after a scheduled August, 2023 board meeting never arrived (August 2024, 1 year later). She refused to help me correct a laundry list of service and negligence issues in my visit. I also ask why a medical doctor I had no interaction with (Beverly VonDerpool) strangely signed off on my records days following my visit. This was AFTER I had informed their staff I was misdiagnosed by partners Ascension Saint Vincent's Birmingham, AL. for an injury that will takes hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to treat (broken skull / head trauma).
Lawyer Deborah Pickens told me in a recorded August, 2023 phone call Christ Health was not liable for negligence damages I incurred in botched visits with their MD and NP in 2019. She then invoked federal protections by the United States government (that apparently excuses their negligence) AND invited me to consult a lawyer myself. She tells me outright that because of their status, any claim I had against them would need to be made against the U.S. Federal Government. She does not possess a medical license to know if I received appropriate care or not but failed to name one of their practices many doctors or nurses who drew such a conclusion following an investigation she claims was made into my issues.
5 months after speaking to their CEO Dr. Robert Record MD (& 2 months following being connected lawyer Deborah Pickens I am still awaiting a letter containing the results of an August, 2023 board meeting regarding several outstanding issues that arose during my 2 visits with their NP & MD in 2019.
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, Birmingham, Alabama area health clinic, Christ Health recently posted this
00:18job solicitation.
00:20It's up on a couple different sites on the internet, including LinkedIn.
00:26This is July 2024.
00:28Christ Health Center is looking for a clinic medical interpreter, Spanish language.
00:35This clinic has a large customer and patient base that are illegal immigrants, and this
00:41is easily proven.
00:43You can go down to their Woodlawn location any day of the week.
00:48The address is 5720 First Avenue, South Birmingham, Alabama, 35212.
00:54I was a patient there in 2019.
00:57I'll give my own details later in the video.
01:01But yeah, it was an odd experience.
01:04I was born and raised in the Birmingham, Alabama area.
01:08And when I went to this place, I was not exactly sure if I had gone to the wrong clinic or not.
01:16You can go down here in the afternoon, like 1 or 2 o'clock, and just stand in the back of
01:23the main waiting area and take a look around at the people gathered there seeking health treatment.
01:31And most importantly, listen.
01:33Very few words of English are spoken.
01:36My own visit, I'm guessing, more than 20 or 30 people, about 90% of Spanish speakers and Latinos.
01:46My own stance on the immigration issue is that illegal immigrants and those that support illegal immigration in the United States
01:56cause harm to our communities.
01:59And I'll debate this issue with anybody.
02:02You're seeking medical treatment in the Birmingham, Alabama area.
02:07Don't give your money, time, and place your personal health in the care of these people.
02:13From what I can tell, the main preoccupation of the licensed medical staff in this clinic,
02:20they have a Xerox machine, and in my case, I didn't receive a service that I would expect going to a doctor or a nurse
02:29that had stacks and stacks of paperwork they ran copies off of from this Xerox machine that was sitting there.
02:39And what they do is they hand indigents and people who don't have insurance or a stated source of income
02:47printed out paperwork to go from this location to somewhere else and apply for financial assistance
02:56in terms of seeking health care and medical treatment.
02:59But, as in my case, you have to pay them around $100 for this privilege.
03:06I was a patient for Christ Health Center, Dr. Terry Daniel Smith, MD, as well as nurse practitioner Anna Musgraves, in 2019.
03:19I had a broken skull injury and head trauma that I almost died from.
03:24The wound became infected with parasites, as well as three-inch-long insects and worms that you can see in various X-rays, MRI, and CT that I had done.
03:38At the time I visited Christ Health Center, I was trying to get an MRI scan, and I had a lot of trouble doing this.
03:46I believe that some person involved in my health care and treatment may have gone to some length to deny me health care,
03:56specifically more detailed scans on this area.
04:00Because days before the Christ Health visit, I went to the Ascension St. Vincent's East Emergency Department
04:07where I had a computed tomography scan of my head and cervical area of my neck.
04:13I was misdiagnosed in that scan.
04:17The radiologist and the doctors in the emergency room, they would not note an injury that I later found in the images.
04:27And I'll put them up here so everybody can see.
04:29My rundown of issues with Christ Health Center, Birmingham, Alabama.
04:34I believe I received no measurable level of service in my visit.
04:38I was charged the same amount of money, $110, to see the doctor and MD as the nurse, a nurse practitioner.
04:49Other medical practices around Birmingham, I paid roughly half of that price.
04:57Christ Health is partners with Ascension St. Vincent's Hospital.
05:01And it looks like either Christ Health decided to ignore my injury or were ordered to ignore my injury.
05:10And I believe this is to protect the reputations and million-dollar salaries of the, quote, professionals, unquote, involved.
05:17I also believe it may have been patient-dupped.
05:20And that's a violation of EMTALA, E-M-T-A-L-A, in the course of my seeking treatment.
05:26I was a self-paid patient, I had no insurance, and I could provide no stated source of income.
05:33Dr. Terry Daniel Smith, MD, outright refused to grant me a referral for an MRI.
05:40Just a few days later, I got that MRI, had to pay cash out of pocket, and broken bone surrounded by infection shows up in that scan.
05:51Broken bone also shows up in the CT scan.
05:54And he claims in his notes in my medical chart to have reviewed in detail.
06:00I was billed $50 for a hemoglobin blood test and electrocardiogram I never received.
06:07And yet, I think taking money from people who don't have anything, such as myself, is obscene.
06:14Nurse Musgraves wrote in her report that she suspected psych etiology to explain my symptomology.
06:21And this is absolutely wrong.
06:23Broken skull bone is visible in the MRI, CT, and X-ray that I've had done.
06:29Nurse practitioner Anna Musgraves agreed to give a referral when I secured my MRI.
06:36So I had to go out and find another medical practice with the equipment who could do the scan.
06:43I was given three avenues of financial assistance to pursue, and all three of these led to dead ends.
06:52I did not qualify.
06:54This is for Ascension Access to Care, Cooper Green Hospital, and UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.
07:00After I paid $500 cash out of pocket for an MRI at American Health Imaging in downtown Birmingham on the south side,
07:10the diagnostic center staff told me that they needed a medical referral.
07:17I informed them to call Christ Health Center in Woodlawn.
07:22They were put on hold 15 minutes, and then someone, we don't know who, at Christ Health Center hung up the telephone.
07:31They backed out on giving that referral.
07:33I believe somebody didn't want me to get this MRI scan because it would show the truth of an injury that I was told I did not have.
07:41A medical doctor I had no interaction with, also strangely edited, and signed off on my records and chart days following that visit.
07:54This was shortly after I lodged my first official complaint for lack of service from Christ Health.
08:02This doctor was Beverly Vanderpool.
08:05I put all my records from this visit in several hours' worth of video on YouTube channel, My Medical Nightmare.
08:14You can go there and see my side of this story.
08:18Deborah Pickens also tells me that a letter with a statement was going to be put in the mail to me after that August 2023 meeting.
08:29And what I can say is I have not yet received this promised letter.
08:35One year later, they know my address, too, because they sent me those bills for those medical services that weren't performed on me.
08:42So people out there looking at health care options in the Birmingham, Alabama area, please take my experience to heart.
08:51And I would advise that you look elsewhere when seeking medical treatment from a doctor or a nurse.
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