00:00For all the details on what happened to me regarding my injury, we're pushing 100 hours
00:05plus of video now. YouTube channel My Medical Nightmare. All right, got some updates on
00:11negligent doctors, Birmingham radiological group. I unfortunately was a patient and customer not by
00:21my choosing three member doctors of this group. I'll go into my own issues a little bit later.
00:27I went into the emergency department believing that I had broken my neck or skull. These doctors
00:34looked at my scans and gave pronouncements. I had no injury present. I knew otherwise. I obtained the
00:42images and written records and found I had broken bone in the basilar area of my skull, improperly
00:49diagnosed, and I almost died from this injury that I was told I did not have. Many patients,
00:55customers, and business partners have had problems with Birmingham radiological group.
01:02I mentioned this latest review posted to the Better Business Bureau website dated January 18,
01:102026. This former patient and customer writes, sends threats via mail to turn over to collection
01:19for bills that have been paid. Get a better company to handle your billing. You just lost a customer.
01:25I will not use a medical facility that cannot even keep up with their own billing. Makes you question the
01:32ability of those reading the x-ray, MRI, and CT scans. These doctors have been implicated in other
01:40medical negligent civil court proceedings. This was written up in June 2023. You can find it in
01:48the Alabama Jury Verdict Reporter. They summarized the case. Medical negligence. A woman was referred
01:55to a radiologist for an ultrasound of her leg to rule out deep vein thrombosis. The radiologist read
02:02the ultrasound to show no evidence of DVT after the woman died a few days later of pulmonary embolism.
02:09Her estate blamed her death on the radiologist for failing to identify DVT on the ultrasound.
02:15The state of Jessica Fisher v. Birmingham Radiological Group, PC. Plaintiff Jeffrey P. Leonard,
02:22Hintinger, Garrison Davis, LLC, Birmingham. Defense Walter W. Bates, J. Bennett, White,
02:30and Mary Pat Grizzle. Starnes Davis, Florey, LLP, Birmingham. Verdict for the defense.
02:36The Circuit Jefferson 524-23 Judge Jim Huey III. In December of 2015, Jessica Fisher was suffering
02:46from lumbar pain. On 12-28-15, she consulted on the matter with her pain management physician,
02:54Dr. Srinivas Malampati, an employee of Alabama Ortho Spine and Sports. AOSS. And just to interject,
03:03you may see this and wonder, are they talking about Ortho Alabama Spine and Sports located near
03:12Trussville, Alabama? And the answer is yes, they are one in the same outfit. During Fisher's presentation,
03:20Dr. Malampati noted signs and symptoms that could be suggestive of deep vein thrombosis,
03:26specifically her right leg was swollen and red. Dr. Malampati wanted to rule out DVT, so he sent
03:35Fisher for an ultrasound. Done the same day by a technician employed by Birmingham Radiological
03:41Group. Interpreted by a diagnostic radiologist, Dr. Julian Druhan, an employee of the group.
03:49Dr. Druhan read the ultrasound as showing no evidence of DVT. That interpretation was then
03:56communicated to Dr. Malampati. Based on that interpretation, Dr. Malampati proceeded to treat
04:02Fisher's lumbar pain. He administered an epidural steroid injection on 12-30-15. The following morning
04:10on 12-31, Fisher died due to pulmonary embolism. It will later be alleged that the embolism was itself
04:17caused by undiagnosed deep vein thrombosis. Fisher's estate filed suit against Alabama Ortho Spine and
04:25Sports Birmingham Radiological Group and the technician who had performed the ultrasound.
04:31However, the technician was later dismissed from the case by the court's grant of partial summary
04:37judgment. The estate voluntarily dismissed Alabama Ortho Spine and Sports later. When the dust had
04:44settled, the only remaining defendant was BRG. The estate pursued that claim on a theory of vicarious
04:52liability. Specifically, Dr. Druhan had failed to notice the plain evidence on the ultrasound of
04:59DVT, both above and below Fisher's right knee. Additionally, Dr. Druhan had failed to note in his
05:07report that the ultrasound was limited due partly to Fisher's obesity and the inability to image parts
05:15of her leg. The estate further alleged that Dr. Druhan failed to communicate those limitations
05:20to Dr. Malampati and instead gave a definitive pronouncement that there was no evidence of DVT.
05:28Both sides identified a number of experts in the case, including Dr. Bruce Distell, Radiology,
05:35Fayetteville, North Carolina, Dr. Jeffrey Risley, Vascular Surgery, Crestwood, Florida, and Dr. Susan
05:42Smith, Internal Medicine, Pensacola, Florida. Birmingham Radiological Group defended the case
05:48and denied any breach of the standard of care on the part of Dr. Druhan. According to the defendant,
05:55Druhan's interpretation of the ultrasound was reasonable and it showed no evidence of DVT.
06:02The identified defense experts included Dr. Stan French, Diagnostic Radiology, Montgomery, Alabama,
06:10Dr. Timothy Uzi, Diagnostic Radiology, Madison, Mississippi, and Dr. Ben Pierce, Vascular Surgery,
06:18Birmingham, Alabama. It was Dr. Pierce's opinion that the cause of Fisher's death was unknowable.
06:25Furthermore, if she had developed DVT, it did not originate in the area that was imaged in the
06:32ultrasound. The case was tried for eight days in Birmingham. The jury returned a verdict for
06:38Birmingham Radiological Group and the court entered a defense judgment. There's a lot I could say about
06:45this case. Very unfortunate that we have another instance of alleged medical mistreatment involving
06:54Birmingham Radiological Group and Dr. Julian Patrick Druhan, and even more so because this individual
07:01later died. I think the important thing here to recognize is juries and courts can return incorrect
07:11or seemingly unfair rulings and judgments. Each time patients of these bad doctors seek out remedies
07:19in the court system, for example, this goes onto a record and a pattern of alleged negligence is being
07:27established. In my case, I have 100% proof that both Dr. Julian Patrick Druhan and Birmingham Radiological
07:36Group are negligent medical practitioners. There's no dispute in this fact. Any person who deals with
07:44the doctors of Birmingham Radiological Group, they need to know that this group is not trustworthy. They're not
07:51reputable. Please peruse the many hours of video documentation on my channel, the uploaded records, the recorded
08:00telephone calls with these people. You're a customer or patient of BRG. You need to look at cases like this
08:11and figure in these
08:13types of examples when assessing any work they may have done for you. Alabama-based Birmingham Radiological Group.
08:22They claim to have 45 radiologists on the payroll and are composed of doctors that examine MRI, X-rays, and
08:30C-3s.
08:32Many doctors and medical practices in the Birmingham area rely on their services. And you may be surprised
08:38if you went to see a doctor and had an MRI, CT, or X-ray in the Birmingham area. A
08:45BRG, Birmingham Radiological
08:47Group doctor, may have examined your images. And you may not be aware of it until later. I was a
08:53customer and patient
08:55of Birmingham Radiological Group in 2018 and 2019. I had three of their doctors look at MRI, CT, and X
09:04-ray
09:04of a major injury that I had in my head. I almost died from this. These doctors wrote in their
09:10reports
09:11that I had no injury present. I knew otherwise. Went and got the pictures. I'll put the pictures up here
09:17yet again. And what is clearly visible at this time when I was being told these falsehoods was that
09:25around six inches in diameter of infection appears inside my head. I'd actually broken my skull in the
09:33basilar area in the region of the occipital condyle and condular canal. My issues are unresolved
09:39outstanding as it relates to Birmingham Radiological Group doctors, Angus Baird, MD, Julian Patrick
09:46Druhan, MD, and Donald Shane Kelly, MD. I called the CEO, Doyle Stewart, and he told me in a recorded
09:54phone call that he was not going to help me get my own images looked at again or to correct
10:00the errors
10:01of their doctors.
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