Medtexx Phlebotomy

Has anyone used Medtexx phlebotomy "weekend training"?

I have often thought that a phlebotomy training or certification in a single weekend seemed too good to be true. Is it?

It sounded a little fishy, but since I am a trusting kind of guy and I thought that the medtexx site appeared professional, I fell for it.  Needless to say, I never got a chance to evaluate the training since they have never given me a training even though I paid for it over 2 years ago.

Since that time, I have had some legal professionals that have told me that I should just take them to court and get back the money that they owe me:
- $450 medtexx phlebotomy certification entrance ticket that I was charged
- $400 in lost wages from days taken off work for the weekends that I signed up to go (and they cancelled)
- $500 in hotel fees for hotel stay that I pre-paid for (even though the trainings were not offered last minute)
- $60,000 in past income that I could have earned over the past 2 years as a phlebotomist in a hospital by now
--> total amount = $61,350

What a hassle though. I would have rather have been able to avoid the entire hassle in the beginning by not registering or at least having had the training or a refund since they did not provide any training in 2 years of waiting on them.

Plus the courts might see fit to have them pay me a lot more just to compensate for stress and wasted time I have spent in trying to get into their classes that they don't offer all that often...and then cancel last minute. Or an attorney might counsel me to just sue them for the millions in total amount in life income that I would have earned as a medical doctor had I gotten into the medical school I was trying to get into by using my experience, grades, letters of recommendation AND the phlebotomy certification and experience that would have come in the year to follow as a result of that.

But a nurse recently commented on the blog here that phlebotomy cannot be taught in a single weekend, but that it takes weeks and even months to learn how to properly draw blood. So apparently the idea of a weekend training is a complete farce. 

So my main goal of this blog is to at least help other people out there to not get scammed like I did.

Has anyone else used medtexx?

Phlebotomy refers to what a "phlebotomist" does; venipunture. A person that would draw your blood would be called a phlebotomist. Like when you go to the Red Cross Blood Drive to donate blood, that person that draws your blood is a phlebotomist who went to a phlebotomy training (usually several weeks at a tech school).

Phlebotomy can be learned at special schools, or on the job, or sometimes in weekend seminars if enough information can be crammed into one day. I don't know about you, but I would feel a little nervous about the idea of a phlebotomist putting a needle up to my veins who had only been through a "weekend training". There is one company out there that claims to give weekend training seminars. I tried to see if it was a joke by signing up for it...Medtexx took my m.oney but never even gave me a training.

My Experience with Medtexx.com

My evaluation is that Medtexx might be a scam. The company may not have always been a scam, but they took my money and I have never seen them. They never gave me any service, training, product and refuse a refund. This is an age old type of scam.

I signed up for the medtexx phlebotomy certification weekend class and noticed that there were only a few certification trainings per year within a 1000 miles. I paid the $450 hefty price tag for the weekend training and then was not able to find many weekend times that would work during a 2 year period. I found 2 weekends during an entire 2 year span of time that would work for me. The real problem though was that medtexx canceled both of my weekend training sessions that I registered for, calling me just 5-10 days before each of the 2 weekend sessions!

On the Medtexx website, they claim to be a private medical company that offers medical certification. They are members of the Better Business Bureau of Florida, but if you look at their BBB report, there are several complaints from unhappy customers. They hide behind their website. But you can see more info on the company if you do a google search for "medtexx scam" or "medtexx customer service".

My attorney asked for a refund or at least a training and Medtexx informed me that their policies had changed and that I would have to pay again since my window of training had expired. They had never said anything in previous policies about expiring. They even faked a legal document from an attorney. The mispelled simple words made it obvious to see that it was fake when I opened the letter and read. What was really hilarious though was that the company was trying to send me legal mumbo jumbo in the postal mail...rather than just fixing the problem...granting a deserved service that was paid for or at least a refund.