I was hesitant to make a review for Dr Brown, but I think it's important to share my experience. His staff was really friendly, and seemed knowledgeable in their positions. I think he was a nice guy, but a bit smug at times. He seemed like I was annoying him by asking him questions, and he didn't really answer my questions with knowledgable answers. To me, I felt like he was trying to get me to leave, and I felt like he wasn't interested in helping me. I saw Dr.Brown by referral for a skull based tumor. This tumor is causing migraines. Every clinical article, every peer reviewed journal, everything that has clinical evidence says that headaches is the only symptom, if any, related to this tumor. I'm not a doctor by any means, but I am a nurse. I know not to look on web Md for credibility and answers that aren't backed by clinical evidence. He saw my MRI images and wasn't sure why I was in his office instead of a neurologist office. Yes he said that to me. My clival tumor is almost 2 cm. that's why! He then told me that he didn't think the tumor needed removal. When I asked why, his response was "because it's benign." When the facts are, unless it's biopsied you can't actually tell for sure. When I asked again because I didn't like the answer and wanted a better explanation, he said. "Trust me." He said he wanted me to come back in 3 months after I did another MRI. And would be referring me to a neurologist in the mean time to deal with my headaches (which the neurologist (dr.du) doesn't have an appointment for me until the last week of November, and I was scheduled to do another MRI on November 7th, so no help there!). I wanted another opinion because after leaving Dr. Brown's office I left feeling really discouraged and like I didn't get any of the answers that I went there looking for, I didn't get any validation. "Because it's benign" and "trust me" aren't good enough answers to me. If it were him, would he be so inclined to leave it in there? He also said that because it was my first MRI that found it, we need a baseline and that's why we needed to do one in November. So he basically agreed to watch it. Although I still felt like he didn't want to. If it grew even a little, he would talk about a removal, if it didn't grow, he said that I basically needed to forget about it because the risks outweigh getting it removed and I would follow up with yearly to 5 year MRI's. He also told me that the surgery would be very invasive and through the back of my throat, etc. So I went to Dallas and saw some skull based tumor specialists there for second and third opinions. They both told me that I have 3 options, I can ignore it, I can watch it, or I can have it biopsied in which case they would go ahead and remove it at that point. They said option number one is just not really even an option in their opinion. Option two they said is reasonable, but if it is malignant then it's just prolonging the surgery. And something that is malignant needs immediate treatment, because that means it's cancerous. They recommended that it gets removed, because that is the only way they can actually give a diagnosis on what it is for sure. And proper treatment! The MRI that I had done can't confirm a positive diagnosis, if just can't. So I will be getting a 3D image done on my brain and I have surgery in a month, which by the way, is through my nose. Not the back of my throat. I spent an hour with each Doctor i met with and I got all my answers and then some. I just felt like Dr.Brown wasn't interested in helping me, or explaining things to me, I just felt like he did the bare minimum so that he could cover his butt and get me out of there. He most likely just does more spinal surgeries and has no interest in my condition, or doing skull based surgeries. Which, if that is the case, I would have appreciated it if he would have told me that or at least sent me to a specialist to get their opinion. I had to pay out of pocket to get two specialist's appointments, luckily I did, too! I don't think Dr. Brown is a bad guy, I just won't recommend him for anyone with neurological conditions of the brain unless it's an emergency. read more