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, Ascension is now under investigation and scrutiny on a number of fronts.
00:18Ascension is, of course, one of the United States' leading non-profit and Catholic health
00:26systems.
00:26They have over 134,000 associates, 35,000 affiliated providers, and 139 hospitals under its management
00:39in 18 states.
00:42In the Birmingham, Alabama area, this includes St. Vincent's and associated hospitals such
00:48as St. Vincent's East.
00:50All right, a new news article has been published by WEVV-TV Television Channel 44 out of Evansville,
01:02Indiana, USA, dated January 18, 2023.
01:09It reads here, local attorneys announced the filing of a lawsuit, that's a federal lawsuit,
01:15against Ascension, St. Vincent, Evansville, on Wednesday, that claims violations of the
01:23Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA.
01:28That's E-M-T-A-L-A.
01:31This led to the death of an eight-year-old child.
01:34His name is Marco Gabriel.
01:38He died on September 22, after his parents took him to the Ascension St. Vincent Urgent
01:46Care, Epworth Crossing.
01:48He was referred to the Emergency Department at the Ascension St. Vincent Evansville Hospital.
01:55According to the lawsuit, the nurse practitioner who examined Marco at the emergency department
02:02did not communicate with urgent care to determine the extent of Marco's evaluation.
02:09It also says that no interpreter was provided to communicate with Marco's parents, who primarily
02:16speak Spanish.
02:18The lawsuit goes on to state that no doctor ever saw Marco on that visit, and that St. Vincent
02:25incorrectly indicated several times in its records that Marco had no insurance, and Marco's
02:32care was treated as self-pay.
02:35The lawsuit claims that the nurse practitioner assigned to Marco did not conduct any of the
02:42basic lab or blood tests, and also failed to do the MRI recommended by the emergency department
02:48urgent care.
02:49It says that Marco was discharged to home, and his parents were told to give him ibuprofen
02:55and Tylenol, and to seek a pediatrician for further treatment.
03:01Marco was returned to the Ascension St. Vincent Emergency Department two days later by his parents
03:07with persistent symptoms of headache, fever, vomiting, and pain, with an additional symptom
03:14of confusion.
03:15The lawsuit says, it says that labs, an MRI, a CT scan, and a lumbar puncture revealed acute
03:24multifocal encephalitis, and that Marco was started on medications.
03:30After that, Marco was taken to Norton Children's Hospital in Louisville on September 21st.
03:37The lawsuit claims that treatment at Norton Children's Hospital was started too late to save
03:42Marco, and that he was pronounced dead on September 22nd.
03:45According to the lawsuit, the Ascension St. Vincent ER failed to provide Marco with an appropriate
03:51medical examination, including the MRI recommended by the St. Vincent urgent care.
03:57Quote, an appropriate medical screening examination that tested for the cause of Marco's severe
04:03headaches, fever, pain, and vomiting would have resulted in Marco getting immediate emergency care.
04:10Instead, unlike other children with the same symptoms, no such testing was done, and Marco was sent home.
04:16I was a patient at Ascension's St. Vincent's East Emergency Department in 2018 and 2019,
04:24and I was also self-pay.
04:27You can hear my own account in videos that are up there on that YouTube channel.
04:33My experience dealing with Ascension's emergency department in Alabama, almost identical to this
04:42new account in 2023.
04:46Yeah, when you go into the ER, Ascension has a procedure that they follow, and apparently this
04:54extends to all their hospitals.
04:56What happened to me was I was taken to an examination room, and somebody entered and asked me a source
05:07of income, where I worked, or how I was going to pay for my medical treatment.
05:12And when I revealed that I was self-pay, I had no job and no source of income, the entire
05:20demeanor of the individuals involved in my visit changed.
05:25I could notice body language and how I was being talked to.
05:30In my own case, I complained of neck pain and head pain.
05:36I thought I had broken bone in my neck.
05:39I was given several scans, x-ray, and CT in the Ascension emergency department.
05:46They came back and told me I had no injuries present, that I had just pulled a neck muscle.
05:51I knew that this was an error.
05:54I went and got those original images.
05:56I'll put them in this video.
05:58And as you can see for yourself, despite what I was told by nurses and doctors in St. Vincent's
06:06East and Birmingham, I had broken the underside of my skull.
06:09I almost died from the complications of this injury.
06:13But I survived.
06:15So what you can see here in this latest account is that Ascension is still dumping patients in
06:21hospitals.
06:22In this latest lawsuit, I urge you to go read the details of.
06:26It reveals something very key about the procedure that Ascension follows.
06:32Almost identical account to my own.
06:35There are others out there, I believe, who went to Ascension and their various emergency
06:42departments for treatment.
06:43They were told they had no injuries, or injuries to a lesser degree than what was the reality.
06:51And I believe there's conspiracy, negligence, and medical fraud actually occurring in these
07:00Ascension hospitals and among their doctors and nurses.
07:04They know exactly what they're doing, and they do it on purpose.
07:08Please go back and watch my videos and listen to my own experience dealing with the representatives
07:15of Ascension when I tried to get my own misdiagnosis corrected.
07:21And you can hear what they say.
07:23They would not do anything to help me.
07:26Thank you for calling Ascension.
07:28At this time, our administrative office is closed and our associates are working from home
07:33to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
07:34To leave a message in the General Delivery Mailbox, please press 2.
07:41You've reached the Ascension System Office General Mailbox.
07:44After the tone, leave a detailed message and someone will respond to your call.
07:51I'm trying to reach CEO Joseph Impechike, and he can contact me at that number.
07:58And I have a message that I would like to give to Ascension.
08:01Between 2018 and 2019, I was an emergency department patient at Ascension St. Vincent's East Hospital
08:09in Birmingham, Alabama.
08:11I believe I had broken my neck.
08:13I had an x-ray, two CT scans, and later an MRI looked at by Ascension St. Vincent's doctors.
08:21Each time they had told me I had no injuries in this area, I knew their diagnosis was an error
08:27as my condition worsened.
08:29The area became infected and infested with parasites by summer of 2019.
08:34I almost died.
08:36I obtained my medical records from your hospital along with the x-ray, CT, MRI imagery, and discovered the truth
08:42of my injury.
08:43I had broken bone in the underside of my skull in the area of the condylar canal and occipital condyle.
08:49How the doctors could have missed such a large and serious injury over multiple hospital visits is inexcusable.
08:55I believe some element of organized corruption may exist in this hospital.
09:00I have compiled over 10 hours of video documentation on what happened to me on my YouTube channel.
09:07And the name of the channel is My Medical Nightmare.
09:10I believe I may have been a victim of patient dumping in the course of my seeking treatment, which is
09:17a violation of EMTALA, E-M-T-A-L-A.
09:20When I told medical staff associated with Ascension about my discovery that I had been misdiagnosed repeatedly,
09:28I was personally attacked and my psychological state was challenged.
09:32And this is reflected in medical records I obtained later.
09:36I could not obtain proper treatment or diagnosis for this injury because doctors and nurses that I would subsequently have
09:47encounters with
09:47would only entertain what the erroneous Ascension ER findings were.
09:52My mother, who was a nurse for 20 years, had the misfortune of working in an Ascension hospital.
09:58When I questioned my MRR findings involving St. Vincent's Ambulatory Healthcare Network, LLC, and Dr. Michael Brandt Ruff, MD, radiologist,
10:09in March 2019.
10:11My mother, who was a nurse for 20 years and worked in the Ascension hospital, she was terminated from her
10:16job there around the same time.
10:19So this phone call, I challenge the misdiagnosis of Ascension St. Vincent's East Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama, and I challenge the
10:29policy of this hospital.
10:31And Mr. Impechike, I think you need to look into this, please.
10:35Please listen to my message, look into what I'm saying, and you're free to contact me.
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