Brandon Milan L, MD

Dr. Milan Brandon has been my primary physician for over 40 years. He is an excellent, knowledgeable, thorough, compassionate, generous healer. There is none better. I can recommend him without reservation. I’ve always been able to get in to see him quickly, no long wait time. His staff, as with Dr. Brandon, himself, are completely compassionate, caring and thorough. They are gems. He is a jewel.

I recently took my 96 year old mother to see Dr Brandon, who has been her Dr for many years. I was shocked at how incompetent and inept he was. He spent over 30 minutes reviewing a list of vitamins I give, telling us certain ones can cause kidney stones, etc. I said she’s 96, but he be labored every item and never got around to asking about her current state or physically assessed her. He spoke so softly and in depth about nothing and my mother is hard of hearing and confused and asked to go home. He didn’t seem to get it and the whole appointment was a big waste if time. He doesn’t take Medicare, so he couldn’t give her a prolix injection for osteoporosis as in the past. We are looking for another Dr. He’s 88 and doesn’t seem sound of mind.

My wife went to him and had the worst experience with a physician in her life. He told her that her allergies were caused by her mental state and her emotions. He was so dismissive and belittling that my wife ended up crying in his office, and my wife is a strong woman.
She ended up filing a complaint with the medical board. He defended himself by saying, «Emotions have always played a role in allergic disorders. The allergic rhinitis frequently reflects a frustrated cry. Thus, she should not be disappointed over crying at our office.» I’m not making this up. I’m including a photo of that part of the letter.
Unfortunately, despite all of the complaints against him, it looks like the medical board has not revoked his license. Avoid, avoid, avoid!

I’d give less than 1 star if it let me. While I’m sure this guy was a respectable and worthwhile doc at one time, he’s really become ineffective, archaic, and downright senile now (repeatedly asking strange irrelevant questions). Reminds me of Izzy Mandealbaum from Seinfeld show (
). I’m sure that he probably still has his own reasons for not retiring, I honestly feel he needs to cease practicing, for the sake of the patient community.
I chose the guy when I recently moved to SD, because his practice was walking distance from my house, and they were in-​network for my insurance (at that time; they no longer accept any insurance plans; direct patient pay only). And since I’m relatively young and blessed with good health, I figured I didn’t really need much from an MD, and so I settled for a non-​top-​notch doc. But this last visit made it clear it’s time to «grow up» and get a real doctor. Even though I still have pretty minimal need for medical services, there’s no reason not to choose a high-​quality MD within reasonable distance. For anyone who actually has material medical concerns that need to be properly addressed, I would definitely not entrust your health with this fella (he gave blatantly inaccurate medical advice on my last visit).

I saw Dr. Brandon a few years ago, but came across these reviews on Unilocal while searching for an allergist for my husband. After reading the reviews I feel compelled to write one of my own.
I had the same experience as the other reviewers and have to say I feel much better knowing I wasn’t the only one! Dr. Brandon seems like a nice elderly man, until he starts asking you really intrusive questions that have nothing to do with your reason for being there. He asked me about my diet (seems like a legitimate question), which I told him was primarily vegetarian, then he asked how my boyfriend felt about my decision to eat that way and that it must be hard for him if all I’m cooking are meals without meat. Ha! I told him that was my decision and had nothing to do with my boyfriend and that he could cook for himself. What year did he think we were in?
Then he asked me about my heritage and asked if I had dark hair all over my body (?), what my monthly periods were like, and then told me that I should be concerned about having difficulty getting pregnant, based on my heritage and age. What?! I should also mention that at the time I had just turned 30. Unfortunately, I think he believed he was being helpful by offering some (unwanted and unfounded) wisdom.
Anyway, I walked away from that experience feeling very confused and angry. Later, I received a letter in the mail from Dr. Brandon that concluded his findings, and also offered some advice on my vegetarian diet — that he felt it was «not acceptable in social circles» and that I should consider changing that habit as it would be easier on me socially. I laughed so hard about that one!
I also got a bill from them for $ 100 about a year later. My insurance totally covered this visit, so I’m not sure why I was being billed, especially that much later.
So, unless you are a 50’s housewife looking for an allergist who gives advice on cooking and bearing children for your man, then I would suggest looking somewhere else.

This was my worst experience at a doctor’s ever. While conducting a physical exam he informed me that I am a «sinner». He told me to try taking a shower with gloves on to prevent an eyelid rash that I am dealing with, and then when talking with me on the phone later told me that he had no idea why he would say such a thing. He asked me how tall and what religion my boyfriend is. I am not sure how that is medically relevant. DO NOT GO TO THIS DOCTOR!

I agree with the other reviewers, completely.
I called Dr. Brandon’s office to make an appointment to do some simple allergy testing. When I made the appointment, I was told the visit would take about an hour.
I arrived at Dr. Brandon’s office, and they patient paperwork they had me fill out was A BOOK. There were questions about my period, my sex life, my husband’s social security number – stuff they didn’t need to know anything about. Red flag.
When I was finally called in to Dr. Brandon’s office – a half hour late – the visit consisted of him reading aloud every item on the patient information sheets, followed by his completely unsolicited «opinion» on each. He was a nice man, certainly, but he needs to keep his comments in check. Making matters worse, I have a very common disease that Dr. Brandon clearly knew nothing about, but kept «teaching me» about it – as if I was diagnosed that day. For example, when he asked me if I took vitamins and I said «yes, because of malabsorption (due to the illness)» he pulled out a BINDER of about 100 different scientific papers and kept tossing them toward me on the desk. All reasons not to take vitamins. Thanks. Then, he asks me if I plan on having children. I say yes. He says, «you really should adopt. You’ve been through enough (with your illness).» Cringing by this point.
The «exam» was about 15 seconds, during which he put the tip of the otoscope that was up my nose, in my ears. Didn’t even thing to change it.
I’m sure he was great back in the day, but far too much has changed for his brand of medicine to be relevant today.

After a recent huge hive outbreak and allergic reaction I visited Dr. Bandon to try to investigate the cause. It not only was the worst experience at a doctors offices it was completely unhelpful.
He sat me down and took an in depth personal history which I initially thought was impressive but as he asked more and more questions not relevant to my health or my recent hive outbreak I began to question his approach. After he questioned and passed judement on my career (working with autistic children,) my vegan diet, my active life (bike, run, swim, yoga,) and other personal life details I began to question his ethics.
I felt like a 1950s house wife when he consistently asked me what my partner, who he insisted on calling my boyfriend, thought of my health and life choices such as my career or my veganism and best of all– my hives! I tried to emphasize that those were my choices as are my health and my partner was supportive in my independence.
I could go on with the details but would like to keep this respectful and semi rant-​free. The appointment ended with Dr. Brandon not even looking at my hives or the photos I had taken of them all over my body in huge plates. To top it off, the last five minutes he asked me I had religion. Religion really? And how is that related to an allergic reaction? Regardless of my beliefs, his medical methods are not just questionable they are absolutely unethical.
Be careful. My suggestion? Seek out an allergist that actually practices medicine, is objective, listens, and educates you on your situation. Don’t waste the time or money for the Dr. Brandon experience.

Sadly, I think Dr. Brandon is passed his prime and should retire. A number of things concern me, having had 4 recent appointments to get allergies under control:
1. He pries into non-​medical issues then gets upset when the answers violate his own politics and religious views.
2. He wrote a seriously confusing letter summarizing his findings and recommendations, which letter included gross errors, such as meds he had prescribed but in fact did not.
3. He is forgetful.
4. He doesn’t seem to have a handle on drug options, going immediately for the most expensive (and I mean really expensive!!) without considering what’s covered under one’s insurance drug plan or the cheap generic plans available now at most pharmacies. And it’s a struggle to get him to focus on generics or drugs less expensive under my insurance plan.
5. Office staff poorly communicates with each other and do really stupid things. For example, some prescriptions are called in to the pharmacy, others MAILED! Who in their right minds today would mail in a prescription!
Stay away from this guy. I’m changing allergists because I have no confidence in Dr. Brandon or his staff.