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A phone call to the offices of Birmingham Alabama based Grandview Neurology (located off highway 280) reveals the name of a doctor I visited re: a serious head trauma-based injury in 2019 is no longer mentioned among the staff. Likewise, his profile and picture have disappeared from the group's website. This MD may have retired or been relieved of his duties there. I'm still receiving bills in the mail from that visit (5 years later) in 2024. This office will no longer answer the phone when I call. I believe I am blacklisted there after I called out this MD for choosing not give me service as a patient and customer after paying $300 cash because I revealed my self-pay / no insurance status AND told him I was misdiagnosed by referring MDs / showed him several inch diameter injury visible in my head MRI/CT/XRAY images AND the reports where I was misdiagnosed that stated I had no injuries present in the same images. Hudgens foolishly suggested I do range of motion neck exercises (!?) in print records (my foramen magnum may have been fractured - also visible in images (SEE VIDEO)).
I believe I am a victim of discrimination and was discriminated against in this instance.

I share a bill collector bill I received in early 2024 for the Grandview Neurology / Kyle Hudgens MD medical visit I wasted my time & money getting involved with in 2019. 4 years later, I have tried to contact them about my visit several times and calls are never returned. I am still waiting on proper service for my injury which I DID NOT receive in that visit. Hudgens should have been a MD of adequate skill to assess my condition but simply stated he could not explain my pain. He foolishly recommended I do range of motion exercises (I may have fractured the foramen magnum of my skull - SEE IMAGES). This MD also withheld medical records in a formal request (HIPAA) - I REQUESTED EVERYTHING - BUT what is listed as "Form 6/12" was not given to me.

Neurologist Kyle Hudgens of Grand View Neurology (Affinity Physician Services) (located off highway 280, Birmingham, Alabama). 6/12/19 visit following a referral in May from American Family Care (despite the radiologist there noting no abnormality, a cloudy oval several inches in diameter appeared in standard x-ray images near the basilar area of my skull / my left side). I paid $256 for this Grandview Neurology (Affinity Physician Services LLC) Kyle Hudgens M.D. visit. The doctor engaged in too much irrelevant small talk. When I moved the conversation to my injury he acted offended. I showed him (printed and I gave him a copy of the discs (ie: my medical records)) X-Rays, CT scans and MRI showing the pebble size piece of bone that broke off the underside of my skull and was told no injuries or abnormalities were present.
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Transcript
00:00All right, so four years following a visit I had as a patient, all right, it appears
00:06that Dr. Kyle Hudgens, MD, has retired from Grandview Neurology.
00:13They're affiliated with the Grandview Medical Center located off Highway 280.
00:20His name and profile no longer appears on the Grandview Neurology website, and I'll
00:26play this pre-recorded message that you can hear when you call their office.
00:32His name is also no longer mentioned.
00:35Thank you for calling Grandview Medical Group Neurology.
00:39The office of Dr. James Strong, Drew Uric, Stephen Suggs, and Natalia B.
00:47You have reached Grandview Neurology's front desk.
00:49We are currently in clinic.
00:51When I call Grandview Neurology now, I no longer can get anybody to pick up the telephone.
00:56I believe I was blacklisted.
00:59The reason, tough to say, but the day that I had scheduled an appointment with Dr. Hudgens,
01:06I paid close to $300 cash for my visit.
01:10And this neurological surgeon, who has worked since 1987, decided he was not going to do
01:18his job that day when he found out that I had no insurance and I was a self-pay patient.
01:24He was accepting referrals from possibly the worst medical practice in the Birmingham, Alabama
01:32area, AFC American Family Care Urgent Care.
01:36When a human being does answer the telephone in this office, you can see in some of my other
01:42videos with the recorded phone calls, the receptionist does not give their first and last name upon request,
01:51and they're using pseudonyms and nicknames here.
01:55These doctors make some of the highest salaries of any professional in this hospital.
02:02This is something that people need to be aware of.
02:04However, I'm still receiving bills from my visit with Kyle Hudgens.
02:09I got this bill earlier in 2024.
02:14This doctor was given access to MRI, CTs, and x-rays, which showed I'd broken the underside of my skull.
02:24And I'll give the details of my visit following this introduction.
02:30This is what I wrote in my Better Business Bureau complaint in 2021.
02:37Grandview Neurology and Dr. Kyle Hudgens owe me a correct analysis of my injury that I almost died from when I visited their location.
02:51And I will not pay another penny to this group until I receive adequate service.
02:59This is, I was a patient, a customer of Kyle Hudgens, MD, and he works for Grandview Neurology.
03:08And this is located off of Highway 280, Birmingham, Alabama.
03:14Alright, so I was referred to Grandview Neurology from a visit I had at America Family Care.
03:24That's AFC Parkway East, Roebuck, Birmingham, Alabama.
03:31And this was on May 30, 2019.
03:35So I had a standard x-ray done during this visit, and it was reviewed as having no injury present.
03:48Alright, so I got the original x-ray images, and I'll put them up here.
03:53And despite this diagnosis and pronouncement, yeah, and I was misdiagnosed because, yeah, something shows up in these pictures.
04:05This was by Anna Maria Echenique, MD, DA, BR, for American Family Care.
04:13And in the x-ray images, you can see there is a translucent oval.
04:21And it shows up directly below and covering this area where I had pain that sent me around to many doctors
04:32and emergency room visits between 2018, 2019, going into 2020, 2021, this wound is still not healed completely.
04:47Alright, so despite American Family Care saying I had no injury present, they referred me to a neurologist.
04:57So funny how that works, right?
04:59So this visit, it was at Grandview Neurology directly next to Grandview Medical Center off Highway 280 Birmingham, 3686 Grandview Parkway, Suite 600.
05:14Alright, so here's my bill from Kyle Hudgens, Affinity Physician Services, LLC.
05:25So there's another name this business operates under.
05:31I very slowly recovered from this wound in 2018.
05:36And as I've gained strength, I've been able to go back and chase after these loose ends.
05:42Well, I went around to many doctors, medical professionals around the Birmingham, Alabama area.
05:51I paid a lot of money and I received substandard service.
05:58And I believe I was a victim of patient dumping throughout this thing.
06:03I have no insurance and I have no source of income, I have no job.
06:08So I was a cash pay patient and I believe this singled me out for this kind of treatment
06:20in the post-Obamacare world of American healthcare.
06:26I paid $256 to be seen by Grandview Neurology Affinity Physician Services, LLC Neurologist, Kyle Hudgens, MD.
06:37The doctor engaged in too much irrelevant small talk.
06:41When I moved the conversation to Miami, he acted offended.
06:44I showed him, I printed, and I gave him copies of the discs, CD-ROMs, with my medical records and images.
06:58That's x-ray, CT scans, and MRIs.
07:03Showing the pebble-sized piece of bone that broke off the underside of my skull.
07:09And I was told no injuries or abnormalities were present.
07:12I showed him a CT picture from a few days earlier showing a CSF leak, infection, hole in the bottom of my skull,
07:24clearly visible head trauma, 3 inches plus, in diameter, in an MRI, CT, and I showed him some x-rays as well.
07:34In the image, he asked, so yeah, Kyle Hudgens, he asked me, when I showed him these pictures,
07:43well, what did they say it was?
07:46Alright, and, so then I was told I had simply strained a neck muscle.
07:53And that was his diagnosis pronouncement that he wrote in his records.
07:58And he advanced the psychological etiology as well.
08:03For a purely physical problem I was carrying, and he wrote in my records I was exhibiting aberrant behavior.
08:10And I had a chronic infection in my neck below this injury.
08:14And basically I was dying at this point.
08:17My health was sliding into serious decline.
08:21He did not write me any prescription for medicine.
08:27And he gave me no referral on to another doctor.
08:33And his opinion was incorrect as well.
08:38It was a misdiagnosis.
08:40And his erroneous pronouncement adversely impacted future medical professionals' opinions of my injury.
08:47Last week I did some videos on my exchange with Birmingham Radiological Group.
08:56And they had three radiologists who misdiagnosed my x-ray CT scans and an MRI scan that I had done
09:08at St. Vincent's East Hospital Ascension and American Health Imaging.
09:15And these radiologists were Angus Baird, M.D. in American Health Imaging.
09:21Julian Patrick Druhan did the x-ray and two CT scans for St. Vincent's East Ascension.
09:30And Donald Shane Kelly who did the CT scan I had, with contrast, also at St. Vincent's East Hospital.
09:41So yeah, when you go around and you have these different medical scans,
09:47and you take the medical data and you move it on to the next doctor or hospital,
09:56yeah, and what's produced in these various medical encounters, this does not exist in a vacuum.
10:02But in my case, I got all my records and I took this around with me to these new doctors that I would visit.
10:11All right.
10:12And yeah, in this video series, I will illustrate how the erroneous pronouncements and the misdiagnosis
10:20of the three radiologists who are members of Birmingham Radiological Group that I mentioned,
10:27that information, it later adversely impacted the medical opinions of otherwise unrelated doctors.
10:39So yeah, I took the St. Vincent's East Ascension imagery to Grandview Neurology in Kyle Hudgens.
10:52He took the pictures and yeah, he looked at them and I gave him a disc and he left the room where the medical encounter took place.
11:04And he went and looked at these pictures, I believe, on a computer for about 10 minutes.
11:11And then he came back into the room.
11:13So please note here, Kyle Hudgens, when I showed him these pictures, he didn't say,
11:19I can't look at those pictures.
11:22I don't know what I'm looking at, etc.
11:25He took the pictures and he proceeded to review them.
11:29All right.
11:29And this is a very significant.
11:31Yeah, I asked him, what did the pictures look like?
11:33And he was kind of cagey, kind of quiet about what his thoughts were.
11:43And then he comes back and he asked me, well, what did the doctors,
11:49what did the radiologists involved in those scans say the diagnosis was?
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