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, back on October 15th, 2025, Christ Health Center CEO, Dr. Robert Record, MD,
00:19spoke publicly and was part of a panel hosted by UAB.
00:23This event was entitled Better Health Outcomes for All Community Conversations.
00:28The University of Alabama at Birmingham website describes this.
00:34How can Birmingham, Alabama's health care leaders work together to break down barriers
00:39and improve community health?
00:42That's the central question behind the panel discussion and reception that brings together
00:48leaders from across the city to share ideas, experiences, and strategies for lasting change.
00:54We'll highlight perspectives from organizations meeting community needs in unique ways.
01:01Attendees will hear about what's working, what challenges remain, and how collaboration can
01:06open new pathways toward healthier lives for everyone.
01:10Others on the panel included administrative staff from a number of local community health
01:16clinics, Alabama Regional Medical Services, Cabo Valley Health Care, Equal Access, Birmingham.
01:23As you continue to read about this event, you'll quickly become aware that the major
01:30theme of the discussion was somewhat understated.
01:35The conversation is hosted by the Hearsink Office of Access and Engagement, Hispanic and
01:41Latin American Faculty Association.
01:44And it was pretty obvious that this discussion was a major supportive effort to undocumented
01:52migrants and illegal aliens seeking health care treatment in the Birmingham, Alabama area.
02:00UAB recently under fire because of their DEI diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.
02:09When I see CEO Robert Record's name up here in Christ Health Center, it makes me absolutely
02:17cringe because of my own experience dealing with this doctor and his medical practice as
02:26a former patient and customer.
02:28And I'll go into my own issues in just a little bit.
02:32I look at discussions like this in a way.
02:35I feel that people like Robert Record are thumbing their nose at the laws in this country.
02:44There's a procedure for entering the United States.
02:49Many of the individuals that these health providers serve, they choose to disrespect the
02:56the traditions and the customs of our country.
03:00They find themselves here.
03:03There's a massive and growing industry that's developed that serves these people.
03:10Meanwhile, while they put their efforts behind serving the undocumented migrant community,
03:17people like me who were born, raised, and lived in the Birmingham, Alabama area are denied
03:25health care because they go for the low-hanging fruit, these easy in-and-out, $100 pop exams.
03:36And bad doctors have a preference to this clientele because, after all, illegal immigrants don't
03:43use English as a first language.
03:46So they can't communicate well and probably will not complain or make that much of a fuss when
03:54they get less than adequate service.
03:57As a patient and customer at both the Chalkville, Old Springville Road, and Woodlawn locations,
04:05I'll tell you what I saw during my visits in 2019.
04:10I initially thought that I had gone into the wrong clinic because standing in the waiting
04:17area, and it was standing room only, overfilled, and I listened and I looked around, and I
04:25thought I was in Mexico.
04:26Yeah, as I mentioned in some other videos, very few words of English could be heard spoken
04:31here.
04:32Probably around 30 or 40 patients and their families waiting here.
04:37It became very obvious to me after a few minutes that the people here were quite possibly undocumented
04:46migrants and illegal aliens.
04:50Yeah, I had never seen anything like that going to a health provider in the Birmingham, Alabama
04:56area.
04:57Yeah, and another thing that occurred to me is how unsafe and dangerous this entire situation
05:05was.
05:06Robert Record and some of these other yahoos that make a lot of money accepting these types
05:14of customers and patients, but that's all they care about is the profits.
05:20As we saw in January in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the lives and safety of any person in this establishment
05:30could have been put at risk and danger because there is now an aggressive push in the United
05:39States by ICE to seek out and apprehend those that have crossed the borders illegally.
05:49My rundown of issues with Christ Health Center, Birmingham, Alabama.
05:52I believe I received no measurable level of service in my visit.
05:58I was charged the same amount of money, $110 to see the doctor and MD as the nurse, a nurse
06:07practitioner.
06:09Other medical practices around Birmingham, I paid roughly half of that price.
06:16Christ Health is partners with Ascension, St. Vincent's Hospital, and it looks like either
06:22Christ Health decided to ignore my injury or were ordered to ignore my injury, and I believe
06:29this is to protect the reputations and million-dollar salaries of the, quote, professionals, unquote,
06:36involved.
06:37I also believe it may have been patient-dupped, and that's a violation of EMTALA, E-M-T-A-L
06:43-A,
06:43in the course of my seeking treatment.
06:45I was a self-paid patient.
06:47I had no insurance, and I could provide no stated source of income.
06:52Dr. Terry Daniel Smith, MD, outright refused to grant me a referral for an MRI.
06:59Just a few days later, I got that MRI.
07:02I had to pay cash out of pocket, and broken bone surrounded by infection shows up in that
07:09scan.
07:09Broken bone also shows up in the CT scan.
07:14He claims in his notes in my medical chart to have reviewed in detail.
07:19I was billed $50 for a hemoglobin blood test and electrocardiogram I never received.
07:26And yeah, I think taking money from people who don't have anything, such as myself, is obscene.
07:33Nurse Musgraves wrote in her report that she suspected psych etiology to explain my symptomology.
07:40And this is absolutely wrong.
07:42Broken skull bone is visible in the MRI, CT, and X-ray that I've had done.
07:48Nurse practitioner Anna Musgraves agreed to give a referral when I secured my MRI.
07:55So I had to go out and find another medical practice with the equipment who could do the scan.
08:03I was given three avenues of financial assistance to pursue, and all three of these led to dead ends.
08:10I did not qualify.
08:13This is for Ascension Access to Care, Cooper Green Hospital, and UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.
08:20After I paid $500 cash out of pocket for an MRI at American Health Imaging in downtown Birmingham on the
08:29south side,
08:30the diagnostic center staff told me that they needed a medical referral.
08:37I informed them to call Christ Health Center in Woodlawn.
08:41They were put on hold 15 minutes, and then someone, we don't know who, at Christ Health Center hung up
08:49the telephone.
08:50They backed out on giving that referral.
08:52I believe somebody didn't want me to get this MRI scan because it would show the truth of an injury
08:59that I was told I did not have.
09:01A medical doctor I had no interaction with, also strangely edited, and signed off on my records and chart days
09:11following that visit.
09:13This was shortly after I lodged my first official complaint for lack of service from Christ Health.
09:20This doctor was Beverly Vanderpool.
09:25I put all my records from this visit in several hours' worth of video on YouTube channel, My Medical Nightmare.
09:33You can go there and see my side of this story.
09:37Deborah Pickens also tells me that a letter with a statement was going to be put in the mail to
09:45me after that August 2023 meeting.
09:48And what I can say is I have not yet received this promised letter one year later.
09:56They know my address, too, because they sent me those bills for those medical services that weren't performed on me.
10:02So people out there looking at health care options in the Birmingham, Alabama area, please take my experience to heart.
10:10And I would advise that you look elsewhere when seeking medical treatment from a doctor or a nurse.
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