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I show a July 10th, 2023 job posting for a Physician by AFC (American Family Care) Urgent Care at Cahaba Village (3000 Cahaba Village Pl STE 110, Birmingham, AL 35243) (near Mountain Brook).

UPDATE: In this video you can hear my recorded call to this clinic who confirms Doctor Christopher Blake Thomas MD no longer works there after "leaving". He is now employed byMedhelp near Chelsea, Alabama.

According to medical records (see video), I was a patient under the care of MD Christopher Blake Thomas who previously worked in this location. In 2022 I attempted to contact this doctor and was told he was "in clinic" (with a patient) and could not speak to me. I am then transferred to office manager "Sadler" (a pseudonym). I later discovered this was actually Dr. Blake Thomas using a false name. He proceeded to tell me he heard the receptionist say the MD was in clinic. This was a lie, I was speaking to him. I found many staff in AFC use pseudonyms (nicknames) and this video shows this practice is already being abused. All the real first and last names of medical clinic staff need to be posted up front in lobby and freely given to patients and customers upon request.

I recently discovered a medical clinic office manager I had spoken with in May, 2022 at AFC (American Family Care) Urgent Care Cahaba Village (3000 Cahaba Village Pl STE 110, Birmingham, AL 35243), using the nickname "Sadler" is actually State Of Alabama licensed medical doctor, Christopher Blake Thomas MD. In my recorded calls in this video you will hear he refused to give me his first and last name when asked.

I cite a television interview (https://www.wvtm13.com/article/mountain-brook-doctor-sees-big-surge-in-covid-patients-at-clinic/37165650) with WVTM NBC 13 & play my telephone recordings back to back, the voices are identical.

I called this clinic trying to speak with Dr. Blake Thomas MD, whose name appears on medical records from a misdiagnosed X-Ray I had in 2019 but was only allowed to speak to this "office manager". I was told no injuries appeared there but almost died a few months later when 6 inches diameter of infection set into my jaw and head (visible in subsequent MRI). I obtained my records from this visit & a several inch diameter anomaly is visible in the same area where broken skull bone and infection appears in other images. AFC would not help me get this error corrected, I paid $175 for the visit.

I find these practices to be unprofessional in a business sense and medically unethical.

I found AFC American Family Care Urgent Care staff uses Pseudonyms / nicknames / single names in their clinics. "Sadler" / "Saddler" who claimed to be the office manager of Cahaba Village clinic refused to give me his first and last name (red flag / scam alert). The websites of this clinic do not mention who their staff and doctors are. Birmingham, AL.
Transcript
00:00Welcome to American Family Care. The right care. Right now.
00:06I'm going to see if I were you. The right care right now. Can I help you?
00:09Yes, ma'am. Can you tell me if Dr. Blake Thomas works at your clinic?
00:13Uh, Dr. Blake is my one with AFC.
00:17Okay. Can you tell me if he was fired or did he quit?
00:21He left.
00:22Okay, he left. Thank you.
00:24You're welcome.
00:25Bye-bye.
00:26All right. Heads up, YouTube. The AFC American Family Care Urgent Care Clinic located in Cahaba Village near Mountain Brook.
00:38This is technically in Birmingham, Alabama.
00:43They have recently posted on July 10, 2023, a job opening for a physician in this location.
00:56Now, previously, this has been the practice of Dr. Christopher Blake Thomas, M.D.
01:08And I was a patient under Dr. Blake Thomas' care in 2019.
01:17To see everything that happened to me regarding my experience with this doctor and this medical practice,
01:24you can see my documentation at YouTube channel, My Medical Nightmare.
01:31Back in May 2022, I tried to contact this doctor whose name appeared on the top of medical records
01:44that I requested from American Family Care, and this was in regards to a misdiagnosed x-ray of my skull
01:57that I had done in 2019.
02:02Blake Thomas, M.D.'s name, appears here as supervising the nurse that facilitated the x-ray in the AFC clinic.
02:12This is Kimberly Kelly, and he should have also been checking over the work of radiologist Dr. Anna Maria Echnik,
02:24M.D.D.A.B.R.,
02:26which the x-ray was outsourced to through Xperity.
02:31You call the phone number under this doctor's name on the radiologist report.
02:38It leads to Xperity.
02:40This doctor and subsequently the nurse told me I had no injuries appear in this x-ray.
02:49I'll put the actual images in this video so you can see the truth regarding this matter.
02:57I have around a 3-inch in diameter translucent oval here.
03:03This is visible in a standard x-ray.
03:06No contrast was used in this scan.
03:10Subsequently, I discovered in further MRI and CT that I had broken the underside of my skull.
03:18And the translucent oval that you can see in the AFC and Xperity x-ray,
03:23this shows up as infection surrounding the main wound.
03:29I tried to contact this doctor to get this x-ray scan looked at again because I paid $175 for
03:39this visit
03:39and I got a misdiagnosis here.
03:43This is not helpful if you're a medical patient seeking treatment with doctors and nurses,
03:54in this case licensed in the state of Alabama.
03:57I found that this doctor was located at the American Family Care Clinic in Caba Village off Highway 280 in
04:08Birmingham.
04:08I tried to call this doctor's office.
04:13It was then that I found out by talking to the receptionist,
04:18Every individual that worked in this location that I spoke with,
04:25they used a nickname, a false name, or a pseudonym.
04:31In trying to reach Dr. Blake Thomas, MD,
04:36I was put in touch with an individual who identified himself as the office manager of this clinic,
04:45and he went by the name Sadler, S-A-D-D-L-E-R.
04:51I later found out after my call with this office manager
04:57that I was in fact speaking with the state of Alabama licensed medical doctor,
05:06Christopher Blake Thomas, who I was trying to reach in the first place.
05:10So he gave a false name.
05:13And I found this out very simply.
05:15You can hear my recorded calls with this individual.
05:20And Dr. Blake Thomas gave a television interview with Birmingham, Alabama,
05:26TV station WVTM, channel 13.
05:30Listen to the two voices, and they are identical.
05:35I believe that a medical doctor identifying himself under a pseudonym is against the law in Alabama,
05:44and possibly other jurisdictions as well.
05:48This is a type of fraud.
05:51I'm not very happy about my experience dealing with this individual.
05:55Yeah, and trying to get that x-ray and the misdiagnosis looked at, again,
06:02the office manager, again, a false identity that this doctor was using.
06:09He told me that he could do nothing to help me fix this situation.
06:17No refund of my $175.
06:21He wouldn't go to the medical doctor or Xperity and have this situation looked at or reversed.
06:29He told me on the phone, you can hear this recorded,
06:32there's nothing he was going to be able to do to help me fix this situation.
06:36And this is real bad news because that injury that I had, I almost died from in 2019.
06:42This is totally unacceptable as a medical patient.
06:47AFC as well, I contacted.
06:49They would not help me with this situation.
06:52I talked to Xperity.
06:54They would not help me fix this situation or correct this.
06:57And basically, I was ripped off as a customer and a medical patient.
07:02I went to the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners.
07:07And filed complaints in this situation.
07:10They would do nothing to help me with their oversight.
07:14Totally useless.
07:16They're lazy.
07:16If you're a doctor out there and you're interested in taking this job,
07:21please bear in mind my story.
07:23Bear in mind that you may have to use a fake name when you talk to the public and patients.
07:29And this is unacceptable.
07:31No doctor worth their salt should work for this place.
07:33No person seeking medical treatment should go to a place with doctors who are using fake names.
07:39I mean, this is totally ridiculous.
07:432023.
07:45United States of America and this stuff's going on.
07:48People have got to stand up to this nonsense.
07:51People have got to stand up to this nonsense.
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