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. All right, some key insights here at the end of
00:13March, 2026 into how urgent care provider AFC, American Family Care, relates to their own
00:24employees. We've covered this before in several videos with this company, truly a case of honor
00:33among thieves. Later in the video, I'll go into my own nightmare experience as a patient and customer
00:41of AFC. I almost died from an injury. I was told I did not have broken skull head trauma. My
00:48own
00:49experience spiraled downward and exposed several malicious medical providers and practices in the
00:58Birmingham, Alabama area. And this extended to Xperity Teleradiology, Dr. Anna Maria Echnik,
01:07MD, DABR, a 50-year experience orthopedic surgeon, Perry L. Savage, Sr., in OrthoAlabama Spine and
01:15Sports, and Grandview Medical Center and neurologist, Dr. Kyle Hudgens, MD, up there in the Ivory Tower on
01:24Highway 280. According to a news report dated March 4th, 26, followed by Denver Channel 7, ABC in Denver,
01:34Colorado, several AFC urgent care clinics in Denver closed Wednesday after staff call-out strike. The
01:42American Family Care clinics closed when employees staged a mass call-out strike over what they
01:49describe as compensation and pay cuts made with little notice. In true form, AFC never really covers
01:58its errors and mistakes very well. The only thing that they could muster to a Facebook post was that
02:08the locations had closed for the day due to, quote, unforeseen circumstances, unquote. Denver 7 reports
02:16they received a tip via email from an AFC employee who said staff started a mass call-out over unfair
02:24compensation and leadership, reducing pay substantially with little notice. Staff had sent emails to corporate
02:32leadership regarding their concerns regarding their concerns, which were reportedly ignored. And that
02:39reflects my own patient and customer experience. AFC struggled to mount a response to Denver Channel 7's
02:49investigation of this matter, failing to come up with anything by the news story's deadline date. I cannot
02:57comprehend how a practice like AFC can operate and keep its doors open anywhere in the USA. And it says
03:09here American Family Care, AFC urgent care was founded in 1982. And as of 2025, they claim to have 400
03:18walk-in clinics. They generate more than $1 billion in system-wide sales annually. 3,500 highly trained
03:26healthcare professionals treating over 4 million patients each year. The truth is, American Family
03:31Care is a very troubled company. And there are many, many people in the Birmingham, Alabama area and
03:39beyond who have unresolved outstanding issues and complaints with AFC urgent care. There are apparently
03:47a lot of people looking at the corrupt business practices of American Family Care, AFC urgent care,
03:54and their partners across the United States. I'll go into my own details on what happened to me as a
04:02patient
04:02customer at an AFC near Birmingham, Alabama in 2019. I attempted to contact Randy Johansson regarding my own
04:11issues. My phone call was never returned. Yeah, if you look at my situation and what happened to me, what
04:18you'll see
04:18again and again is current medical providers and practitioners around Birmingham, Alabama, they
04:26choose quantity of patients and potential sources of money and income over quality. And by doing so,
04:38they overlook potentially life-threatening injuries, for example. They don't give the proper amount of
04:45attention to each individual customer and patient. And this is a big problem that needs to be reversed
04:53in the United States of America. We need further health care reform. And here's yet another example
05:00of the bad way in which AFC urgent care, American Family Care chooses to engage in their business.
05:07Back in May 2022, I tried to contact this doctor whose name appeared on the top of medical records that
05:22I
05:22requested from American Family Care. And this was in regards to a misdiagnosed x-ray of my skull that I
05:35had done
05:35in 2019. Blake Thomas, MD's name, appears here as supervising the nurse that facilitated the x-ray in the AFC
05:48clinic. This is Kimberly Kelly. And he should have also been checking over the work of radiologist,
05:58Dr. Anna Maria Echnik, MDDABR, which the x-ray was outsourced to through Xperity. You call the phone
06:08number under this doctor's name on the radiologist report, it leads to Xperity. This doctor and subsequently
06:19the nurse told me I had no injuries appear in this x-ray. I'll put the actual images in this
06:29video
06:29so you can see the truth regarding this matter. I have around a three inch in diameter translucent
06:39oval here. This is visible in a standard x-ray. No contrast was used in this scan. Subsequently,
06:48I discovered in further MRI and CT that had broken the underside of my skull. And the translucent oval
06:56that you can see in the AFC and Xperity x-ray, this shows up as infection surrounding the main wound.
07:06I tried to contact this doctor to get this x-ray scan looked at again because I paid $175 for
07:15this visit.
07:17And I got a misdiagnosis here. This is not helpful if you're a medical patient
07:25seeking treatment with doctors and nurses, in this case licensed in the state of Alabama.
07:34I found that this doctor was located at the American Family Care Clinic in Cabba Village off Highway
07:43280 in Birmingham. I tried to call this doctor's office.
07:49It was then that I found out by talking to the receptionist. Every individual that worked
07:59in this location that I spoke with, they used a nickname, a false name,
08:05or a pseudonym. In trying to reach Dr. Blake Thomas, MD, I was put in touch with an individual who
08:17identified himself as the office manager of this clinic. And he went by the name Sadler, S-A-D-D
08:26-L-E-R.
08:27I later found out, after my call with this office manager, that I was in fact speaking with
08:38the state of Alabama licensed medical doctor, Christopher Blake Thomas, who I was trying to
08:45reach in the first place. So he gave a false name. And I found this out very simply. You can
08:53hear my
08:53recorded calls with this individual. And Dr. Blake Thomas gave a television interview with Birmingham,
09:02Alabama, TV station WVTM channel 13. Listen to the two voices and they are identical.
09:11I believe that a medical doctor identifying himself under a pseudonym is against the law in Alabama,
09:21and possibly other jurisdictions as well. This is a type of fraud. I'm not very happy about
09:29my experience dealing with this individual. Yeah, in trying to get that x-ray and the misdiagnosis
09:37looked at again, the office manager, again, a false identity that this doctor was using.
09:45He told me that he could do nothing to help me fix this situation. No refund of my $175.
09:57He wouldn't go to the medical doctor or Xperity and have this situation looked at or reversed.
10:06He told me on the phone, you can hear this recorded, there's nothing he was going to be able to
10:10do to
10:11help me fix this situation. And this is real bad news because that injury that I had, I almost died
10:17for him in 2019. This is totally unacceptable as a medical patient. AFC as well, I contacted,
10:26they would not help me with this situation. I talked to Xperity, they would not help me fix this
10:32situation or correct this. And basically, I was ripped off as a customer and a medical patient.
10:39I went to the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners
10:43and filed complaints in this situation. They would do nothing to help me with their oversight.
10:51Totally useless. They're lazy. No doctor worth their salt should work for this place.
10:56Thank you, Christ.
10:56please.
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