Dr. George Tipton, MD

My husband, James. W. Rogers, D.O., is a practicing family physician with Austin Regional Clinic; he has practiced with ARC for over eight years. He recently developed moderate-to-severe cervical radiculopathy due to foraminal tearing, disc degeneration, and a bone spur located C6-C7. After receiving an epidural steroid injection and physical therapy, plus several months of chronic pain and neuropathy, he wished to discuss with a QUALIFIED neurosurgeon whether he was a candidate for cervical foraminotomy. He felt, due to his own medical responsibilities and welfare, that he should see a neurosurgeon, and chose Dr. Tipton, to whom he has referred dozens of patients. Dr. Tipton summarily dismissed my husband to see his PA instead, and very rudely responded to him by text messaging. Collegiality? What happened to this? If my husband does not get appropriate care, he may be truncating his career at ARC, and to their detriment. He is one of their top producing family practice physicians.

He diagnosed my problem and got it taken care of. He was much more attentive to what I had to say and knew how to treat me while testing stretching, reflexes, etc. with out being too rough as others had been.

Initially gave 5 stars based on squeezing me in for an emergency appointment. Dr did not meet with me before or after surgery as he promised. I was treated as a checklist in the follow-up appts after surgery. He did not listen to me as a patient and instead kept restating the same things over and over with "typical patients" and never seemed to remember anything I said. Did not review followup mri results. Office consistently does not return phone calls. I will NOT be returning to this dr.

I've had three spine surgeries in 20 years with Dr. Tipton. All surgeries were warranted and this belief comes with working judiciously with Dr. Tipton to confirm the surgery need. His approach starts with anything but surgery until the appropriate options are exhausted then surgery only after he's confident he can affect the desired outcome. I'm so confident in him that I'll let no one else operate on my spine. Very high recommendatoins.

Dr. Tipton has been my back surgeon since 2011. He has operated on my back 2 times and now it looks like I'm headed for a 3rd. I have the utmost confidence in Dr. Tipton and his experience. Additionally, the staff at his main office has always been very supportive and helpful (Stephanie was awesome!!!). I cannot endorse Dr. Tipton and the staff enough!!

I found Dr. Tipton to be rude and condescending. I was in the exam room and needed to go to the restroom and walked out of the exam room and Dr. Tipton asked, Can I help you? like I wasn't supposed to be there when I am already wearing a hospital gown. In the exam room as he was explaining my options, I asked a question about the procedure. He then asked me in a rude tone, Do you want to ask questions, or can I finish. I don't know why people call him Buddy. He was not a Buddy to me.