50 year experienced orthopedic surgeon Perry L. Savage Sr. rudely asked me "where I got the money" to pay for my 2019 exam before looking at MRI images in front of me and telling me with a straight face the 6 inches diameter of head infection seen there "looked normal".
Backing up my own experience, a new review is out in May, 2026 by a patient who underwent surgery with their doctors 3 years ago. He relates a story of being discarded and refused service following informing the practice that he was now self pay.
Run down of issues with my Dr. Perry L. Savage Sr. / OrthoAlabama Spine & Sports (1801 Gadsden Hwy, Birmingham, AL - near Trussville) 9/14/2019 $300 (CASH) exam:
- Appointment at 3pm, I sat in the waiting room 2 hours until I saw him. Walked out of the place near 6pm.
-Waiting area does not offer patient customer privacy (or security). A crude half wall / Chinese screen curtain separates patients from the sign in area where 4+ patients at one time give their personal details. Customers can be heard giving personal health details (HIPAA) in the general waiting area adjacent to this section.
- I presented images of my own head (CT / MRI / X-RAY) (PRINTED OUT & ON DVD), clearly showing the issues (head trauma) which were not acknowledged by this 50 year professional, who graduated from The University Of Alabama School Of Medicine in 1968. I showed many of these images to Doctor Savage on the computer in the exam room and was told they were normal and showed no problems / injuries. I paid this man $300 for his experienced opinion.
-Savage told me & noted in my chart my images were too low of quality to make a determination on any injury being present. In new findings in 2026 (SEE VIDEO), an analysis of those same pictures not only spotted fractured bone (in the C1 atlas of my neck) but contradicted Savages claim, I was told: "THE IMAGE IS A HIGH-RESOLUTION BONE ALGORITHM SLICE, WHICH IS APPROPRIATE FOR EVALUATIING OSSEOUS (BONE) INTEGRITY". Savage also told me several inch diameter infection surrounding the injury in other MRI images were normal, containing no injury.
-Physician Assistant Ben Jeter P.A.-C. sat in during this exam. He entered the room and never introduced himself. Dr. Savage never introduced him to me as well (not professional).
-When Savage wasn't looking at my CT, X-Ray and MRI images on the exam room PC, Jeter thumbed through the images. I showed the doctor a few of the frames containing my 3 inch diameter basilar skull damage and was told no injury appeared there even as I sat struggling to hold my head up on my shoulders after waiting 2 hours to see him.
-In another video I talked about a 2023 civil court case in which Doctor Julian Patrick Druhan was sued (after a patient died) along with Birmingham Radiological Group (3 of their MD's previously failed to note injuries in CT, X-Ray & MRI). OrthoAlabama may have a partnership or special working relationship with them.
