Eddie Brown, DO

Dr. Eddie Brown was awesome! He explained everything to me in a way that I could understand what was going on with my heart. He took time to listen and to answer my questions.

Dr Brown is easy to speak with. He makes things very clear.

Dr Brown in my experience happened to be curious and professional. That and has a pretty cool demeanor. He will be really recommended from me.

Dr. Eddie Brown is a wonderful human being who cares about his patients. He saved my life during Covid and, though it's been a challenge, I'm grateful to him and my LVAD team.

I have waited to post my review of Dr. E. Brown to limit the immediate emotion of the catastrophic turn out of my dad's health, largely in part due to Dr. Brown's lack of care, competence, professional curiosity and ultimately lack of empathy. He actually deserves no stars but since that is not an option, this will do. My dad came under Dr. Brown's care almost 3 yrs ago or so for a diagnosis of congestive heart failure(CHF). As in all CHF diagnoses, we were all aware that it is a progressive disease. But from the very beginning my dad was exhibiting symptoms that did not jive with the typical hypertensive-caused CHF condition, we were told he had . His blood pressures were routinely, alarmingly low- as in 80s/40s! We saw Dr. Brown many times over this concern. His response would be to add this medication, change dose on this medication, discontinue this other medication etc. Basically, he would just play around with medications but NEVER took the time to wonder why, this patient, supposedly with hypertension, had alarmingly low blood pressures even after multiple medication adjustments. This culminated in my dad being admitted, January 2025, to Presbyterian Hospital in cardiogenic shock-(heart condition so deteriorated that was having other organ failure-ie. kidneys). The Presbyterian cardiology team ( excellent group of doctors) diagnosed my dad with a particular type of heart failure caused by amyloid plaque depositions on his heart! This was determined from patient presentation, a carefully reviewed echocardiogram, coupled with a diagnostic heart catherization. Dr. Brown had ordered at least two echos for my dad and missed this altogether!! He also had information from a cardiac catherization by an interventional cardiologist ( at Lovelace heart hospital as well- you see a trend developing). Had he been more caring, more curious and maybe more competent, my dad may have had a little bit longer to enjoy life. As I learned, treatment for CHF from cardiac amyloidosis is not the traditional blood-pressure lowering treatments used for other-causes CHF. Yes, treatment is very limited for cardiac amyloidosis. But, the treatment Dr. Brown had him on for years kept his blood pressures so low that it ended up really damaging his kidneys and not doing a thing for his heart. The amyloid proteins continued to deposit, undiagnosed, on his heart causing it to continue to enlarge and stiffen. When my dad was admitted to Presbyterian, we desperately tried to contact Dr. Brown to let him know my dad was gravely ill. We mistakenly thought there was a patient-doctor relationship between my dad and Dr. Brown. We never heard back from him or his clinic. In retrospect, that fact was actually a God-send, because it took Presbyterian cardiology two days to give the proper diagnosis. My dad is now on hospice, struggling to breathe as his heart is very weak. Yes, this would likely eventually have happened. But, my family wonders, if Dr. Brown had shown the least bit of interest, care and medical curiosity, perhaps the proper diagnosis would had been made, proper treatments pursued, and my dad may have had a little more time with us. In short, there are far better, more caring, competent, curious, investigative cardiologists in Albuquerque. He is certainly not one!