Christ Health (Birmingham, Alabama) Lawyer Deborah Pickens & Serviceless MD / NP Visits

3 months after speaking to their CEO Dr. Robert Record MD I am finally connected to Deborah Pickens who possesses no medical credentials but identifies herself as a lawyer. She proceeded to speak about medical and health care related information but neglected to mention a medically qualified person (ALABAMA LICENSED DOCTOR OR NURSES NAME) from which those opinions originated (NOT PROFESSIONAL).

In a May 17, 2023 recorded phone call I asked Christ Health CEO Dr. Robert Record MD about issues I encountered as a patient in 2 of his Birmingham AL. clinics. On May 9th, 2019 I had a visit with Dr. Terry Daniel Smith MD (aka: T. Daniel Smith / Terry D. Smith) at his Chalkville / Old Springville Road clinic. In those visits I believe I received no measurable level of service. After being referred to Christ Health Center following an Ascension Saint Vincent's East Hospital Emergency Department visit, Dr. Smith refused outright to grant a referral for a MRI of my head. When I finally obtained the mri on my own days later, tissue damage and infection evidence appeared that backed up the fact that I had broken my skull. Dr. Smith billed me $43 for an electrocardiogram and $7 for a Hemoglobin bloodtest that were not given to me. These charges were reversed shortly after I discovered them.

Regarding visits I had at community health clinic The Christ Health Center (Birmingham, Alabama). I was referred here by Saint Vincent's East Hospital (Ascension) after a 2018 X-Ray (the injury was overlooked by reading radiologist Dr. Julian Patrick Druhan MD (also a member of Birmingham Radiological Group)) I had done was said to be "normal". Doctors Terry Daniel Smith ("T. Daniel Smith") did the encounter with me in May, 2019. Attempts to obtain a referral for an MRI to reveal the injury (I needed one that day, immediately) were not facilitated and he wanted to go a different route with the treatment. I feel I was not treated as a human being, my opinions were ignored, he levied an ultimatum, and so I walked out. I was charged for medical procedures not performed on me (see records and bills). Days later, I was able to secure an MRI on my own and was told by Nurse Anna Musgraves from a subsequent visit (several days following the first chc visit) at Christ Health to call their office for the promised referral. American Health Imaging did this after I paid them $500 cash and they were put on hold for 15 minutes before Christ Health hung up the phone on their end. Dr. Beverly A. Vonder Pool, MD whom I did not interact with signed off on Smith's records. These 3 had an exchange not recorded and conferred with Saint Vincent's East Hospital, Birmingham. I later found evidence to support the fact I was patient dumped by Ascension Saint Vincent's East Hospital & ER doctors (an EMTALA violation).