John Stokes, MD

My experience with Dr. Stokes was awful he lacked compassion and knowledge. He contradicted himself several times when discussing my CT results. He seemed more concerned about where I got them done at then what they actually said. I am having to get a second opinion since he couldn’t due his job right the first time. I would not recommend him to anyone. Unless you want to waste your time. His staff seemed inexperienced and lack of caring. I did appreciate Lisa for the effort she put forth in getting me my appt. but to bad it was a horrible experience.

My wife tried to set up an appointment with Dr. Stokes in advance of her Tarlov cyst surgery next month. Dr. Stokes instructed one of his nurses to call my wife and tell her that there was no surgery for Tarlov cysts and they could not be treated. Clearly Dr. Stokes is not keeping up with the latest scholarly research nor does he realize that the world’s leading expert on Tarlov cysts is three hours up I-​35 in Dallas. Information on Tarlov cysts could have been easily obtained in a simple Google search. Avoid this man at all costs.

So thankful to have been referred to Dr. Stokes. (My pain doc said that if he needed surgery, this is who he would go to.) I had been in pain, bedridden for 5 days when I went to see Dr. Stokes at 9am on a Thursday. After a thorough review of my MRI and taking 2 additional Xrays in the office, Dr. Stokes reviewed my options (at this point I was DYING to have surgery as nothing else was working on the nerve pain), and suggested that a discectomy would almost certainly alleviate the pain. He glanced at his surgery schedule for the next day and offered to add me to it. THE NEXT DAY. I met this man at 9am on a Thursday and arrived at Seton for surgery at 10am on Friday. I have never been so excited to enter a hospital in my life. I woke up nearly pain-​free and after taking a week off work, started back part time and slowly worked my way back to full range of motion. Dr. Stokes and everyone in his office was fantastic. You can imagine it was no easy feat to get insurance approval in 24 hours, but they did it! Thank you, Dr. Stokes and staff!

Life could not be better, thanks to Dr. John Stokes.
Much like Rob G I had a herniated disk at level C5/​C6. After years of pain and many attempted procedures to reduce the pain in my arm I almost gave up. Then I met Dr. Stokes and I knew he was the man for my problem, he is amazing both his knowledge and his ability to get epic results from surgery. I walked out my surgery with an artificial disc as a new man. After a short recovery (only because Dr. Stokes told me to take it easy) I was raced my mountain bike in 100k 6 hour race with great results. I am ble to snow ski 40+ days a year and am physically as fit as I have ever been. As one would expect the best doctors are the most busy, and he is the best In the state. So if you are looking for a doctor to pamper you talk to you all the time go to Chiropractor, If you need The Best Neurosurgeon money can buy, Dr John Stokes is your doctor!

I’m sooo glad I saw this review of Dr. Stokes! It would not have occurred to review a Dr. but I’m so happy to. My then 68 year old mother (living out of town) had degenerative scoliosis, that had degenerated to the point of her being bedridden and in severe pain ²⁴⁄₇. Upon the recommendation of a Dr. in town, I took her to see the «best» neurosurgeon available. He took one look at her films and said, I can’t help you, but if anyone can, it would be Dr. Stokes. We went to see him, without a clue whether he would be able to help her. He looked so young, but confidently diagrammed his plan for anterior/​posterior scoliosis surgery, following stenosis surgery on her neck. Long story short, after 12 hours of surgery I was wondering if we had made the right decision. Boy did we. Her recovery was long and hard, but she is a totally new person, titanium rods and all. I would never go to another neurosurgeon anywhere, any time. Dr. Stokes rocks!

There comes a time in our lives when we realize our own mortality. My first experience with mortality was with the death of my father, and the task of shopping for a casket, see my review of Collier’s Caskets. Unfortunately for me, a week after his burial, I got bitch slapped with my own. It came in the form of a brain tumor. Life suddenly got really short, really fast. After Sue and I cried our friggin eyes out, we awaited the appointment with my newly found nuerosurgeon, John Stokes. Sue and I waited patiently in his office for him to arrive. When he did, I could of sworn he was 12. He seemed so young! He immediately put me and Sue at ease by saying, «If I was to have a brain tumor, this is the one I would want to have.» I felt the whole world was lifted off my shoulders by his manner and his ability to explain to us in great detail what the proceedure was that needed to be done. I was feeling much better. So much so, that when we were going through the MRI’s and he was explaining what that spot was, and what was that thing, I pointed to a a black area, and asked, «hey what’s this?» Before he could answer, I quickly responded… oh that’s probably from that Pink Floyd Concert I went to in 78… we all burst out laughing. Surgery went extremely smooth, he personally kept Susan abreast of what was going on, from the time he started the surgery to when he finished. He returned all my phone calls personally, and my emails. In the end, the tumor turned out to be benign, and I just had my one year check up. During that appointment we spent more time catching up like ol friends, and at that point, he said your good to go, see you again next year. I have been very fortunate to find a medical professional, who generally cares for my welfare, returns phone calls and emails, provides me with information in a manner which I can understand an added plus was that he happened to be on my insurance. So, if you happen to need a Neurosurgeon or need a second opinion, check in on John, you will be very glad you did.