00:00For all the details on what happened to me regarding my injury, we're pushing 100 hours plus of video now.
00:07YouTube channel My Medical Nightmare.
00:09Alright, a new customer and patient review posted for OrthoAlabama Spine and Sports.
00:16Location near Trustville, Alabama, 1801 Gas and Highway, Birmingham, 35235.
00:24It relates an experience of being patient dumped when they dropped their insurance and went to self-pay status.
00:34I was a patient at this same location in 2019.
00:39This resonates with what happened to me.
00:42I'll go into my own negative experience here later on in the video.
00:47Founder Perry L. Savage Sr. retired at the end of 25.
00:52It looks like the company is now being run by junior Dr. Loren Savage.
00:57In the interim period, neglect, laziness, and the snatch and grab greed has been supercharged.
01:07My prediction is it won't be very much longer before regulatory authorities step in.
01:14So to the review, this is from May 2026.
01:20They write, I am beyond disgusted with the lack of professionalism and blatant greed at this facility.
01:28I previously had a full knee replacement here with Dr. Peavy in 2023 when I had insurance and had a
01:38good experience.
01:39However, now that I am self-paying in 2026, they treat me like a second-class citizen.
01:46After being in a recent accident and injuring both knees, I tried for over a week and one-half to
01:54get an appointment.
01:56They ignored my messages and never called back.
01:59I only reached someone because I spent days calling them incessantly.
02:04When I finally reached billing, they quoted me specific prices, $102 for the visit, $57 for x-rays, and $464
02:14for an MRI.
02:16I was fully prepared to pay these costs.
02:19Today, everything changed.
02:22I called to finalize the appointment with a check from my attorney to cover the costs.
02:27And the receptionist was incredibly rude.
02:30She flat-out lied and said the prices I was quoted were wrong, claiming it cost $300 just to walk
02:39in the door before even touching an x-ray or MRI.
02:43To make matters worse, they reneged on their previous agreement to accept a check from my lawyer.
02:49It is clear this office is only interested in price-gouging insurance companies.
02:55Because I'm a self-paid patient and they cannot milk an insurance provider for thousands, they give me the runaround
03:03and provide false information.
03:05They claim to record calls.
03:07If they actually honored those recordings, they would see exactly what I was promised.
03:13This goes to show they do not care about their patients, just money.
03:17To refuse a returning surgical patient who is injured and ready to pay just because they don't have insurance is
03:25unethical and greedy.
03:27If you do have to talk to them, save yourself the headache and go somewhere that actually values human beings
03:33over a bottom line.
03:35My advice is that this individual should immediately take their hard-earned money and seek a better physician.
03:44Yeah, once they find out you're self-paid, you're red-flagged, and even if you come up with the money,
03:52like in my case, you will not get a proper medical service.
03:58And that's how they operate.
03:59In fact, they apparently looked down on self-paid patients.
04:04Savage Sr. had the gall to ask me where I got the $300 to pay for my visit.
04:14This 50-year orthopedic surgeon decided he was not going to do his job that day.
04:21All right, so my issues with Dr. Perry L. Savage Sr. in Ortho, Alabama Spine and Sports.
04:29September 14, 2019, $300 cash visit.
04:36Appointment at 3 p.m.
04:38I sat in the waiting room two hours until I saw him.
04:42Walked out of the place near 6 p.m.
04:45Their waiting area does not offer patient-customer privacy or security.
04:52A crude half-wall Chinese screen curtain separates patients from the sign-in area, where four or more patients at
05:02one time give their personal details.
05:04Customers can be heard giving personal health information, which is a concern of HIPAA.
05:11In the general waiting area adjacent to this, in the visit with Savage, I presented images of my own head
05:20and neck,
05:21clearly showing the issues, which included several-inch diameter head trauma.
05:27Curiously not acknowledged by this 50-year surgeon and professional who graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine
05:36in 1968,
05:38probably has seen almost every type of injury that is humanly possible.
05:45So one thing Savage told me was that the medical imagery that I showed him to assess my injury was
05:53not good enough.
05:55He wrote this in my chart.
05:57You can see it here.
05:58He says I just showed him a few slides of CT copied on paper.
06:03This is not accurate.
06:05I had a DVD-ROM disc that Dr. Savage put into his computer in the examination room.
06:12We both looked through imagery.
06:16I pointed to the same area in these pictures where anomalies have been noted.
06:22And again, he told me with a straight face that those were not injuries.
06:27My pictures looked normal.
06:29And I'll show some new findings as of April 2026.
06:35Interestingly, the same CT scans that I shared with him that he said weren't good enough have been newly assessed
06:43to be a high-resolution bone algorithm slice appropriate for evaluating osseous bone integrity.
06:52I had a chance to put this imagery in front of some new experts and compare this new information to
07:01the few lines of text Savage wrote in my chart.
07:07All right.
07:07So the area we're looking at, an axial view of the craniovertebral junction, specifically focusing on the base of the
07:16skull and the first cervical vertebrae, C1, the atlas.
07:19Primary findings.
07:21Within the highlighted red region, patient's left side image right, there's a significant disruption in the cortical continuity of the
07:30C1 lateral mass and posterior arch.
07:34This appearance may suggest a common unit fracture where the bone breaks into several fragments.
07:42The bone in this area appears irregular and displaced when compared to the contralateral side that's the patient's right.
07:51These findings could reflect an acute traumatic injury to the atlas, such as a Jefferson-type burst fracture or a
08:01complex lateral mass fracture.
08:03In continuing examination details comparison, when comparing the highlighted region to the opposite side of the image, the normal ring
08:13-like structure of the C1 vertebrae is lost.
08:16The contralateral patient's right side shows a more continuous and expected cortical outline.
08:24Anatomical deviation.
08:25The fragments in the red box appear to be shifted, which could indicate instability at the craniovertebral junction.
08:34The findings are highly consistent with an acute fracture of the C1 vertebrae, atlas, on the patient's left side.
08:43Because injuries to the upper cervical spine carry a high risk of instability and potential neurological complications,
08:53this requires immediate evaluation by a neurosurgeon or orthopedic spine specialist and usually necessitates stabilization, such as a cervical collar,
09:07until fully cleared.
09:08I mentioned in the other video where, after challenging the Birmingham Radiological Group, Ascension, and UAB doctors,
09:17I was retaliated against in the future healthcare providers that I went to.
09:24When they looked into my case, some protest was made from one of the earlier providers,
09:31and all of a sudden I found doors were being closed to me in my quest for diagnosis and treatment
09:39of this injury,
09:40which I was repeatedly told did not exist.
09:44Two, Ortho Alabama and Dr. Perry Savage,
09:48they apparently had a working relationship or partnership with the Birmingham Radiological Group doctors,
09:57UAB St. Vincent's and Ascension.
09:58In the chart note where Savage claims he cannot explain my pain,
10:04but refers me on to their partners, University of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB.
10:09I did another video where Ortho Alabama and their Dr. Malampati were the subject of a civil lawsuit
10:19in which Birmingham Radiological Group, Dr. Julian Patrick Druhan,
10:25was blamed for contributing to a patient's death days before that individual had some medical imagery done
10:35and was accused of not spotting deep vein thrombosis,
10:41which may have been a causative factor in that patient's death.
10:44Physician Assistant Ben Jeter, PAC, sat in during this exam.
10:50He entered the room and never introduced himself.
10:53Dr. Savage also never introduced him to me as well, and this is not professional.
11:01When Savage was not looking at my CT x-ray and MRI images,
11:05Jeter thumbed through my files.
11:08Mr. Jeter silently observed,
11:12When I left, this man told me someone in their office would call me about a UAB neurosurgery referral
11:21in a few days' time.
11:23Why was I referred to a neurologist if the doctor claimed I had no injury?
11:29This phone call never took place.
11:32After one week, I had to call OrthoAlabama myself and found the appointment had indeed been made.
11:41Again, I was not informed.
11:43And what's more, I was put on a three-month waiting list for the referral to UAB.
11:49Dr. Mina Lubos, I was called by UAB and told I would have to wait an additional month
11:57because they were moving to Gardendale.
12:00At this point, I told UAB to forget it, and I canceled.
12:04I tried to contact OrthoAlabama and Dr. Savage later.
12:09When I found out the true extent of my injuries, I told an office representative,
12:17I did not believe I received fair service for my money.
12:21I invited Dr. Savage to call me and discuss this.
12:25A telephone call was recorded.
12:26You can hear it in my videos.
12:29The OrthoAlabama receptionist played the usual out-of-office games,
12:35despite the fact I got a call from the office manager just a few minutes before.
12:40That call that I was promised then and there was not returned either.
12:44I was referred to Dr. Savage in OrthoAlabama from a previous visit at AFC American Family Care,
12:53$175 cash, located off of Parkway East near Roebuck.
13:00American Family Care would not back me up on getting this write-off of a medical exam corrected.
13:07I later learned AFC is corrupt and not a reputable practice,
13:12and anyone who takes business from them is immediately suspect.
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