00:00All right, UAB Primary Care, Birmingham, Alabama.
00:04They told me on March 23rd, 2023, that if I wanted to see a primary care doctor, that's
00:16like a jack-of-all-trades family doctor, as a new patient, I would have to go on a waiting
00:25list, and the soonest that they could see me at the Leeds, Alabama clinic was November
00:352023, and that is an eight-month waiting list.
00:41If I was willing to drive into downtown Birmingham, I could be put on a waiting list for August
00:492023, that's five months.
00:51I did some research and some asking around, and from what I can find, it looks like eight
01:02months' wait to see a primary care doctor in the United States of America, this is probably
01:09a bit too long.
01:12For an organization the size of UAB, I think this is really unacceptable.
01:19If you drive downtown Birmingham on the south side, you'll see that the entire UAB campus
01:28is around 83 city blocks.
01:33A good portion of the real estate in downtown Birmingham on the south side, it's UAB.
01:43Becker's Hospital Review in 2020 rated UAB the eighth largest hospital in the United States
01:54of America with 1,207 beds.
01:59So yeah, I think for them to have a primary care network that makes new patients wait eight
02:09months, this is totally unacceptable.
02:13I found out something interesting in that phone call, and I'll play this excerpt.
02:28The receptionist here, she tells me that my chart was printed in 2022.
02:43And this is interesting, I was referred to UAB Neurology by Dr. Perry L. Savage Sr. of Ortho Alabama
02:56Spine and Sports.
02:59And you can see my uploaded medical records and documentation with him and that medical practice
03:06at my YouTube channel, it's my medical nightmare.
03:12I showed him, printed out CT images, and we both looked at MRI pictures on a CD-ROM that showed
03:26broken skull bone and around six inches diameter infection in my head.
03:38And I knew what I was looking at.
03:40I asked him about those anomalies, and he told me with a straight face right in front of me
03:46that there were no injuries present in those pictures.
03:49I put the pictures up on that YouTube channel.
03:52They're in many videos, and you can see for yourself the truth about my injury.
03:58So from that visit, yeah, I was referred on to UAB Neurology in 2019.
04:06The last contact that I had with anybody at UAB as a patient, this was in 2019.
04:16So it looks like my chart may have been updated in 2022.
04:26Yeah, and I'm real interested to know who printed this and for what reasons.
04:36And taking all this into account, yeah, I think this opens up the possibility that I may have been
04:45blacklisted by the UAB network.
04:48Because what I was doing in 2022 is I had started documentation efforts on the fact that I had an
05:00injury that was misdiagnosed by other doctors.
05:03And, yeah, I was going to UAB to try to get another opinion on this.
05:11Calling UAB Medicine Leeds.
05:13For prime care and pediatrics, please press 1.
05:17Thank you for calling UAB Medicine.
05:19This is Bailey.
05:20How may I help you?
05:21Yes, ma'am.
05:22I would like to make an appointment with a doctor, please.
05:27Okay, sure.
05:28I can help you with that.
05:30Have you ever been seen at UAB before for anything?
05:34Yeah, I went to the emergency department and I stood there downtown Birmingham for five hours waiting to be seen.
05:44And I never saw a doctor.
05:45I got tired of standing.
05:47I had to leave the emergency department.
05:49Do you want to make you aware before we get started for a new patient here at the Leeds Clinic
05:54in primary care?
05:55We are booked until November.
05:57And we do have a wait list as well that I could add to you.
06:00Okay, I would just like to confirm.
06:03You say that the earliest you can see me is November.
06:06I'm calling and my calendar says it's March 23, 2023.
06:11Is that correct?
06:15Today is, yes.
06:16So that is, let's see, April, May, June, July, August, September, October.
06:22That's eight months from now.
06:25Right.
06:26For a primary care visit, there's no other place I can go to that will see me any faster.
06:33Okay, so we have the Whitaker Clinic, which is in Birmingham.
06:37The first available there is August the 7th.
06:41Yeah, I really don't want to wait that long.
06:43It's not professional business practices to make customers wait so long for such a menial service.
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