00:00Following this introduction, please listen to my free MRI consultation with Duke Spine Institute, Dr. Ora Duke Medjian.
00:17And this took place in September 2022.
00:20In our conversation, you will hear Dr. Duke Medjian feign ignorance about a subject that on his website he brags
00:33expertise on.
00:35He tells me that he is not an expert in the area where I believe I have an injury that
00:43shows up in MRI, CT, and x-rays that I was misdiagnosed, repeatedly owned by other doctors and hospitals.
00:54At the end of this call, he refers me to a neurosurgeon.
00:58However, if you look at the website of Duke Spine Institute and Dr. Ora Duke Medjian, you will find the
01:08following.
01:10Dr. Duke Medjian lists as his professional society memberships a fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, AANS.
01:23And also he lists here, he is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, CNS.
01:32He mentions that he was accepted into one of the top three nationally recognized neurosurgical training programs at the University
01:42of Florida at Shands under the direction of Albert Roton,
01:46one of the most distinguished neurosurgeon, one of the most distinguished neurosurgeons of the last century, and completed his fellowship
01:52funded as principal investigator by the National Institutes of Health.
01:57And then on his LinkedIn page, it shows here that the University of Florida granted him a neurological surgery residency.
02:12This took place between 1997 and 2004.
02:17Also at the University of Florida Epilepsy Neurosurgery Fellowship, Department of Neurosurgery 2000 through 2002.
02:27And despite him telling me that he doesn't have experience in my injury area, I believe that he actually does.
02:36If you go to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, check out the membership requirements.
02:48And it lists here, actively practicing neurosurgery, resides practices in North America, board certified by one of the following,
02:57ABNS, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Mexican Council of Neurological Surgery.
03:06Letters of sponsorship from three AANS member neurosurgeons.
03:11Note, the online application will assist you in identifying AANS members.
03:17Electronic version of your CV in English.
03:22To be an active member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
03:31It lists the following.
03:33You must be a licensed physician whose practice is substantially limited in neurological surgery in North America, U.S., Canada,
03:43and Mexico.
03:47An applicant for active membership in the Congress must meet at least one of the following criteria.
03:55Be certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
04:00Have completed the residency training requirements of a neurological surgery program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
04:12Or, have acceptable academic training equivalent to the requirements for eligibility for examination by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
04:23Or, have an outstanding record in the field of neurological surgery over a period of years due to the high
04:30standard of quality of the applicant's work.
04:34Or, be an international member currently practicing within North America and have been approved by request to the membership committee
04:45to convert from international member to active member.
04:48And, have a record consistent with the highest standards of the profession.
04:55All right, so please bear that in mind and listen to my call with Dr. Aura Dutmejian.
05:02And, any patients out there in the state of Florida and beyond, please take to heart what you hear and
05:10what you see in this video and my other videos on my exchanges with this doctor.
05:17My feeling is, I sent in my images.
05:21They were misdiagnosed by the other doctors who looked at them in the reports.
05:27I think the doctor looked at these images.
05:31He knew what he was looking at.
05:33He may have contacted the Birmingham Radiological Group, Vulcan Imaging, or doctors Julian Patrick Druhan, M.D., Michael Brandt Ruff,
05:45M.D., Angus Baird, M.D., Donald Shane Kelly, M.D., and the others involved with these scans and misdiagnosed
05:56me.
05:56And, yeah, what you can hear in this call is, he tries to back up the erroneous diagnoses that I
06:04received.
06:05Because I had broken the underside of my skull, evidence appeared in the medical imagery, MRI, X-ray, and CT
06:14scans.
06:16At the end of the video, yeah, you can hear that he waffles, and he falls back on this position,
06:24asking me, what does the report say?
06:28And, it doesn't matter what the report says, he offers a free MRI review, okay?
06:33So, does the doctor look at the MRI pictures?
06:36And, that's what you want if you're a patient out there.
06:40Doctors who just read the reports of other doctors, they're not doing any work.
06:44Okay, they're just reading a script, okay, like a movie actor or something, or a newscaster, all right?
06:52These doctors, they go to school for 10 years, et cetera, and have tuitions close to a million dollars
07:01to be trained and have experience to apply their own knowledge and discernment in issuing these diagnoses, okay?
07:13I'm Dr. Duke-Majon.
07:15I looked at your MRI, and I know it's a bit old, but I had a chance to take a
07:21peek at it.
07:22What's going on?
07:23Are you having neck pain?
07:26Yeah, and a lot worse than that.
07:29Okay, my hand, it's on my left side.
07:34Upper area of my neck, lower skull.
07:39What's bothering you?
07:40What's hurting you?
07:41Okay, I have, for the last four years, intense pain on the left side of my neck.
07:51I cannot turn my head left or right easily.
07:55Take your collar off and put your finger exactly where it's hurting you so I can see it.
08:00Okay, yeah, give me a minute because there's a lot of pain here.
08:04Okay, yeah, I can't really turn my head so easily.
08:09All right, go ahead and show me exactly where it's hurting you in one place.
08:13Okay.
08:17I need you to turn more.
08:19Okay.
08:20Don't look at me.
08:21I need to, there we go.
08:22That's what I need to see.
08:23Right here.
08:24Left side?
08:25Left side, yes, sir.
08:27And just turning to the side hurts like heck.
08:30It's moving my head out of a very limited range of articulation is a lot of pain.
08:36What about turning to the right side?
08:38No problem?
08:40I cannot turn left, right, up, or down very easily.
08:45There is a lot of pain.
08:46That's so much.
08:47Yeah.
08:48All right.
08:48I think I know what's wrong.
08:50Did you take a look at those images?
08:53Oh, yeah.
08:54I'm looking at them right now.
08:55I'm sorry, I didn't want to share my screen with you.
08:57I apologize.
08:58Yeah.
08:58I got the images here, too, that I can share possibly.
09:03I don't need you to share with me.
09:04Okay.
09:04Right here.
09:05This is your MRI right here.
09:08Okay.
09:09All right.
09:10So the good news is you don't have any herniated disc on this MRI that I can see.
09:15Now, your pain is coming up from C1, C2.
09:18Yeah, it's around, I think it's around, okay, could you go back?
09:23Uh-huh.
09:24Yeah.
09:24Could you go, anyway, you just passed that area where I believe there is a serious issue.
09:33Right here.
09:34Okay.
09:35Well, can you go, I wish that I could.
09:38Yeah.
09:39Okay, right there, and then it's below my brain.
09:42Can you see that?
09:43Right here.
09:43Yeah, that area to the left of your mouse cursor.
09:48Okay, now you've moved out of the range.
09:51Okay, yeah, right there, and then to the left and up of your mouse cursor.
09:56That area right there.
09:57And you can see that the injury, it also kind of covers.
10:06Okay, I'm talking about this broken piece of bone that came off the underside of my skull.
10:13No, I don't think you have a broken piece of bone.
10:16Is it possible for me to share these images because I can show you otherwise.
10:22In 2018, I believe I broke the underside of my skull.
10:27And you can see this in these pictures.
10:30Listen, you wouldn't see that in an MRI.
10:34Yeah, you can.
10:35Again, you can see also the side effects because I broke the underside of my skull and I went
10:40into this emergency department.
10:42I was misdiagnosed.
10:44And then after several months passed, the area became infected.
10:48Do you have that other MRI, the MRI?
10:51It doesn't matter because I don't treat this kind of stuff.
10:54Okay, well, it's in the area of my spine, sir.
10:57You're a doctor, right?
10:59I'm a doctor.
11:00Okay, I wish that I could, I got the pictures printed out here.
11:04It doesn't matter.
11:05There's nothing I can do to help you in this area.
11:07Okay, you're, but yeah, it's going to be in the area.
11:11Again, I'm not an expert.
11:13I don't deal with this area, so I'm not going to address it.
11:17First, second, vertebrae.
11:19You deal with that issue, don't you?
11:22You can see an injury in that area.
11:25Can you bring up the overhead imagery, please?
11:29Of the, go to the brain or the, yeah.
11:33Yeah, okay, this one.
11:36Yeah, and you got to, I got to get to.
11:39That's the top right there.
11:41Okay.
11:42Can you bring, there's some other pictures in here.
11:47That's what I have.
11:49Okay.
11:50You got to bring up the, um.
11:53But if this is below your brain, I'm not dealing with that.
11:56I already told you that.
11:57Okay, well, yeah, it's in the, it's actually in the area.
12:00I think I broke the underside of my skull.
12:02There may be damage in that area.
12:04I don't deal with that part.
12:05You're going to have to go see a neurosurgeon at this.
12:07But, okay, you can look at these pictures.
12:09Can you tell me if there's an injury or not?
12:11I cannot, no.
12:12You cannot?
12:13I'm not, I don't deal with that.
12:16Okay, well, you can.
12:17What does the report say?
12:18Yeah, what does the report say?
12:19Well, you're the doctor.
12:20I wanted to ask you, sir.
12:23Yeah, this is an MRI consultation for the spine.
12:27Okay, can you go to that area?
12:29Do brain cells.
12:30First, second vertebrae in the cervical column of my neck.
12:35And I've got an injury there that you can see.
12:38It doesn't say anything here.
12:42About first and second.
12:44Okay, can you bring up. . .
12:46The MRI of the cervical spine is essentially unremarkable.
12:49Okay, you're going to have to look at the pictures.
12:51I was misdiagnosed.
12:54Yeah, I'm not going to help you with that.
12:55That's not what I do.
12:56Okay, here.
12:57I feel it's fine-ish.
12:58If you go up to this area where you were on the profile, you can. . .
13:04We're done.
13:05We're done.
13:05We're not done.
13:06I'm not done because I've got a real serious injury I need to have looked at.
13:09Right here.
13:10There's my brain.
13:12There's the cervical column.
13:15T1, T2.
13:16I've got a broken piece of bone under my skull.
13:18I've got a broken piece of bone.
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