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Following seeing 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), a search has revealed a State Of Alabama licensed medical doctor is now working for MedHelp at The Narrows located at 151 Narrows Pkwy, Birmingham, AL 35242 (near Chelsea, AL.). Upon calling the clinic a receptionist confirms the doctor now works there, the recorded call can be heard at the start of this video.

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.

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00:00Thank you for calling. MedHelp.
00:02MedHelp there is. This is Sandra. Help me help you.
00:05Yes, ma'am. Can you tell me if Dr. Blake Thomas works at your clinic?
00:09He does. Uh-huh.
00:10Okay. Is he new there?
00:12He's new.
00:14Thanks.
00:15All right. Thank you. Bye-bye.
00:17I recently found out that a Birmingham, Alabama area doctor
00:24had given me a false name
00:26when trying to contact him about a very serious misdiagnosis situation
00:31that I dealt with in 2019
00:34has moved locations.
00:37Dr. Christopher Blake Thomas, EMD, licensed in the state of Alabama.
00:42He had practiced at the AFC American Family Care Urgent Care
00:47off of Highway 280 in Caba Village.
00:51This is technically in Birmingham, but borders the city of Mountain Brook.
00:56He has left that location
00:58and he is now practicing with MedHelp at the Narrows
01:04at 151 Narrows Parkway, Birmingham, Alabama.
01:0935242 near Chelsea, Shelby County.
01:13Recently I discovered that the AFC Urgent Care at Caba Village
01:18had posted a job listing.
01:21They were looking for a new doctor.
01:23They have recently posted on July 10, 2023
01:28a job opening for a physician in this location.
01:36Now, previously, this has been the practice of Dr. Christopher Blake Thomas, EMD.
01:48And I was a patient under Dr. Blake Thomas' care in 2019.
01:56To see everything that happened to me
02:01regarding my experience with this doctor in this medical practice,
02:04you can see my documentation at YouTube channel,
02:09My Medical Nightmare.
02:11Back in May 2022, I tried to contact this doctor
02:19whose name appeared on the top of medical records
02:24that I requested from American Family Care.
02:29And this was in regards to a misdiagnosed x-ray of my skull
02:37that I had done in 2019.
02:42Blake Thomas, MD's name,
02:45appears here as supervising the nurse
02:49that facilitated the x-ray in the AFC clinic.
02:52This is Kimberly Kelly.
02:55And he should have also been checking over the work
02:59of radiologist Dr. Anna Maria Echnik, MDDABR,
03:06which the x-ray was outsourced to through Xperity.
03:11You call the phone number under this doctor's name
03:15on the radiologist report.
03:18It leads to Xperity.
03:20This doctor and subsequently the nurse told me
03:24I had no injuries appear in this x-ray.
03:29I'll put the actual images in this video
03:33so you can see the truth regarding this matter.
03:38I have around a three-inch in diameter
03:41translucent oval here.
03:43This is visible in a standard x-ray.
03:47No contrast was used in this scan.
03:50Subsequently, I discovered in further MRI and CT
03:55that I had broken the underside of my skull.
03:58And the translucent oval that you can see
04:01in the AFC and Xperity x-ray,
04:04this shows up as infection
04:07surrounding the main wound.
04:09And I tried to contact this doctor to get this x-ray scan looked at again
04:16because I paid $175 for this visit
04:20and I got a misdiagnosis here.
04:24This is not helpful if you're a medical patient seeking treatment.
04:32I found that this doctor was located at the American Family Care Clinic
04:38in Caba Village off Highway 280 in Birmingham.
04:43I tried to call this doctor's office.
04:47It was then that I found out by talking to the receptionist,
04:52every individual that worked in this location that I spoke with,
04:59they used a nickname, a false name, or a pseudonym.
05:05In trying to reach Dr. Blake Thomas, MD,
05:10I was put in touch with an individual
05:14who identified himself as the office manager of this clinic
05:20and he went by the name Sadler, S-A-D-D-L-E-R.
05:25I later found out after my call with this office manager
05:31that I was in fact speaking with the state of Alabama
05:37licensed medical doctor, Christopher Blake Thomas,
05:41who I was trying to reach in the first place.
05:45So he gave a false name.
05:47And I found this out very simply.
05:50You can hear my recorded calls with this individual.
05:54And Dr. Blake Thomas gave a television interview
05:57with Birmingham, Alabama, TV station, WVTM, Channel 13.
06:05Listen to the two voices and they are identical.
06:09I believe that a medical doctor
06:11identifying himself under a pseudonym
06:15is against the law in Alabama
06:18and possibly other jurisdictions as well.
06:22This is a type of fraud.
06:24I'm not very happy about my experience
06:28dealing with this individual.
06:30Yeah, in trying to get that x-ray
06:33and the misdiagnosis looked at again,
06:36the office manager, again,
06:40a false identity that this doctor was using.
06:43He told me that he could do nothing
06:46to help me fix this situation.
06:51No refund of my $175.
06:55He wouldn't go to the medical doctor
06:58or Xperity and have this situation
07:02looked at or reversed.
07:03He told me on the phone,
07:05you can hear this recorded,
07:06there's nothing he was going to be able to do
07:08to help me fix this situation.
07:10And this is real bad news
07:12because that injury that I had,
07:14I almost died from in 2019.
07:16This is totally unacceptable as a medical patient.
07:21AFC as well, I contacted.
07:23They would not help me with this situation.
07:26I talked to Xperity.
07:28They would not help me fix this situation
07:30or correct this.
07:32And basically, I was ripped off as a customer
07:34and a medical patient.
07:36I went to the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners
07:41and file complaints in this situation.
07:44They would do nothing to help me
07:46with their oversight.
07:48Totally useless.
07:50They're lazy.
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