Brett A Levine, MD

Called to make an appointment. Answering Receptionist was rude to say the least
I asked when is the next appointment? and was told next month… that’s several weeks away
I asked it I could be on a cancel list… answer was «We get lots of cancellations but we will
not maintain a list.» She said I could call every hour the entire day. Had no sympathy at all
If this is the front face of the Office then one can ask if the Dr. cares about first impressions.

Stay away for your own good.
The staffs (not the Doctors) in this office are irresponsible, paper bunching, barin less, hostile, and insecure individual…
Besides my previous incident with the African American lady who works for Dr Rafii. (See my google review.)
A Report was sent from the Advance Sleep medical group to them on 3/​14, called in 2 weeks later and find out they didn’t receive it.
Call back a week later, same result, no report.
I told her I called a week ago about this «No report», she said «sometimes fax does not work will.» She also told me, «I am not sure when will we will contact you.»
Regardless of my frustration, the receptionist would not try to make sure to receive my report, does not want to say when I will get a result. Even thou my result can be as easy as to go do another test, the receptionist told me my doctor will contact me. And all I can do is to wait.

By far, one of the worst experience I have with any doctor.
I brought my child in here for follow up management. We had been seeing another ENT but switched insurances and therefore had to see someone else within our new group.
Dr. Brett A. Levine’s bed side manners are totally nonexistent. just RUDE. No compassion whatsoever. Our previous ENT took a «wait and see» approach before we would attempt any surgical interventions.
Before I could get a word out, he belittled me and the previous ENT for waiting so long and told us my child should have had surgery from the get go.
I was blown away by his abruptness. This was his first time seeing us and he did not even bother to get a proper history or hear out my concerns. He was unwilling to consider any alternative treatment besides surgery. He told me to only call him or return when I was ready to have the surgery. Its pretty sad when your Medical Assistant has to approach me after you leave the room to apologize on your behalf for your shitty ass behavior. Keep in mind, I made no complaints to her before she approached me.
We know specialists such as him get compensated more for «surgical procedures» more than they do for «alternative treatments and non surgical approaches». So if you would like to contribute to this cause and be talked down on in the process, by all means go ahead.
If not, please stay away… and definitely do not take your children to him. He is definitely not kid friendly.
Besides my horrible experience with him, everything else in the office was great which explains the one star I was nice enough to give. lol. The front office staff were efficient. They have a small play room for children which helps make the wait (which was not long) bearable for the kiddos and as I mentioned earlier, the medical assistants were great… very empathetic.

The staff in this office is extremely rude, not one but all ! They sat there an argued with me about a future appointment. Customer service is a minus and they all need to be replaced. As I was sitting in the waiting room I can hear them laughing and talking about me which is very unprofessional, I would not recommend this place to anyone, find another ent unless you are OK with staff talking behind your back !

Excellent Doctor! I went to Dr Levine’s office after going to another ENT a few months ago. The other Manhattan Beach ENT (who will remain nameless) briefly looked in my ear and gave me Nasonex to help what she thought was my inner ear tube. After experiencing the same ringing in my ear and feeling of fullness I was lucky enough to find Dr Levine. He examined me thoroughly and took the time to answer my questions. He put together a plan to identify the cause of my ear problem. He is extremely professional and knowledgable. With Dr Levine you’ll be in good hands. His staff is also very courteous.

Decent doctor but awful bedside manner. Talks over you and is very cocky. Doesn’t really care what you think or have to say, terrible listener. But that always seems to be the case with brilliant scientists, doctors, surgeons. Great at their particular job and specialty, but terrible social skills. Probably a great doctor but rudeness puts me off every time, so went elsewhere. Would recommend him to anyone who can look past the bedside manner, I just couldn’t. Needed a doc who could listen to what I had to say and not make me feel like an idiot for asking questions. New ENT doc I see is fantastic, not only listens and speaks to me in a pleasant manner, actually thinks outside the box at alternative treatments and is knowledgeable of mold issues in the Southbay effecting people’s nasal cavities, and actually knows of the Shoemaker protocol. A good doc listens and explores outside of conventional medicine and keeps searching. Average docs just practice what they are taught at brainwashing med school, cash their checks and keep to status quo. This day and age, people are able to research things, so great doctors should do the same and not get stuck in medical teachings from 20 years ago.

Dr Levine did my son’s tube surgery and we are very pleased. His office is very clean and not a ton of wait time even when we had apts towards the end of the day. They can do hearing tests right in the office which is convenient.
They dealt with the insurance and getting the approval with absolutely no effort on my part and worked to quickly get my son in after we had to reschedule due to illness.
We are grateful for the wonderful job that Dr Levine and his staff did for our son. So glad we were referred to him.

Dr. Brett Levine, M.D. Specializes in Sinus & Snoring Solutions! Dr. Levine is a very young friendly doctor! Jenna was referred to him because her Primary Dr. Barbara Lee, M.D. could not take all her ear wax of of her ears! Dr. levine explained the reason why she could not get Jennas wax out due to Jenna having small ear canals! Dr. Levine said he got all her ear wax out of her ears & told us that he can see inside her ear canal! Jenna told him that she could her out of «one» ear but not the other ear! So, Dr. Levine asked if I wanted to have a hearing test for Jenna! We set that appointment, next available would be in April!
I really like the scenery in this office! Alot ocean, wave pictures!
One thing that me & Jenna thought was not too nice but kinda rude is the mexican Receptionist girl who was wearing black shades in tbe office! She didnt have a pleasant attitude!

I’m only 30 but have seen many doctors for diff health issues. I came to see Dr. Levine as a 2^nd opinion; meaning I was not happy w/​what my previous ENT doctor told me.
MUST READ!!!
So let me give you a brief summary– went to another doctor for a ranula (blocked salivary gland-don’t look it up it looks gross) under my tongue; that doctor did surgery but the ranula came back. That doctor (I won’t say his name now but I am def doing a Unilocal review on him) suggested doing the procedure again, saying the procedure was quick & could be done again there in the office. I felt uneasy & spoke to my primary physician who reminded me that I have the right to get a 2^nd opinion & if I did not feel comfortable with that suggestion I should get a 2^nd opinion; hence referring me to Dr. Levine.
My first visit did take a little long but I knew 1^st visits are generally long bc there’s tons of paperwork to fill out. When I finally saw him, he had questions about my previous surgery but I had no answers so we re-​sched. At my next appt he had a summary printout from my previous doctor which pretty much said he couldn’t find it so just stitched me back up. I was SHOCKED… so long story short– Dr. Levine explained what was done previously and what were my options. I was hesitant about being opened up again bc the tongue is a very risky spot to do surgery on. Anyhow, I agreed to it. He took precautionary measures seeking clearance from my prev doctor for certain medical condition. Day of surgery actually came to talk to me before surgery and checked in with me after. I was still asleep but he did take the time to explain to my friend what he did and what to expect thereafter. Surgery was on Friday, he called me on a Sunday to see how I was doing. who does that… he is def a doctor who cares about his patients. Post-​Op appt was great– I’m healing great and I’m very happy to have gone to him as a 2^nd opinion. I wish there was another site where I could recommend him bc I totally would.

Dr. Levine and staff are the best! They are so caring and really take all measures to get you healthy.
I had been to another ENT for 5 years and they never even tried to do anything to help me.
I will keep going to Dr. Levine for as long as he is in practice.
The staff is also very efficient and nice.
Thank you Dr. Levine for getting me healthy again!

Two thumbs up for Dr Levine. He did a great job on my nose surgery.

I’m sitting in the waiting room pretty pissed. I will follow up with a review of the doctor later, but I must say, the people that work here are extremely RUDE and not very competent. Unbeknownst to me, they booked me for the same appt on two different days. They were blowing my phone inquiring why I booked twice. Nope. never apologized for the mistake. They were supposed to send paperwork to my email. After spelling out my email addy phonetically, they still managed to botch it up. I called back today and was finally able to fill everything out once they resent the email. When I arrive now, I’m met with, «You never filled anything out.» More time wasted…
For all I know, Dr. Levine may be awesome but his front desk staff has tainted this experience. Doctor, your staff needs to enroll in etiquette/​customer service classes.
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Met with the doctor and he was fine. Took the awful front desk experience into account and WILL NOT be coming back.

Came here because my 3 yr old son stuck something in his ear that couldn’t be removed without sedation. It was a referral from his pediatric dr. This review is based on the follow up appointment after the surgery. The dr did successfully get the object out, but I am writing this review as we sit in the waiting room. Our appt time was for 11:25am. We checked in at 11:15 and it is now 12:05. It’s no excuse to have a 3 year old waiting for that long.
Well, we got in the room at 12:10 and waited another 10 minutes before the dr came in and then three minutes later we were walking out of the office. So a three minute appointment for an hour wait with a three year old. It would if been a 15 second appointment, but my son now has a fear if doctors, so i had to hold my son while kicking and screaming just so he can look in his ear with the flashlight. This review should be one star but I felt the dr was decent.

I never even got to see the Dr. because the staff booked my appointment for the wrong day. I made my appointment by phone, and made it for my birthday. I even discussed with the receptionist that it was on my birthday. I hired a babysitter, got to the appointment 5 minutes late and they told me my appointment was the following week. I know that I did not forget which day my birthday is! They did NOT apologize and told me I couldn’t see the doctor unless someone else didn’t show up. They actually expected me to sit there for hours just to see if there was a no show. And I cannot overstate how rude they were. They blamed it on my being 5 minutes late — that would not have made any difference! I will not return there and will tell anyone I can about this very negative experience. I will also complain to my insurance company — I’m sure they have other complaints about this office. Hopefully they will drop them.