I had an AMAZING experience with Dr. Johnston—she’s an effective and highly competent migraine specialist with an incredible bedside manner. After struggling for years to find a doctor able to understand and cure my daily migraines, she listened to my symptoms and sent me away with two lines of defense, the first of which worked within a month (and continues to work a year later). Highly recommend Dr. Johnston—she’s a life-changer.

I have been seeing Dr. Mollie Johnston for years. She has has a fantastic bedside manner, is always on time and is knowledgeable. She is patient, listens, explains and is quick to take care of refills.

I’ve suffered from episodic migraines for over 10 years, and Dr. Johnston is the only doctor that has listened to me, taken my experience with different treatments into consideration, made me feel respected and (most importantly) has been the only neurologist to provide me with rescue and preventative medications that actually work. Her office staff are amazing— they respond to requests quickly and are a huge part of why I stay with this office even after having moved out of the area!I also have to say, after reading her surprisingly negative reviews, that they seem like they are either from people who were frustrated that they weren’t getting their expected opioid pain medication or were just frustrated that there wasn’t a simple explanation to their complex neurological problem — whether that was migraines or something else. I’m a neuroscientist and have worked with many neurologists over the years so can understand the frustration when there aren’t straightforward answers, but that’s not unusual when it comes to CNS problems. If people want to complain about here bedside manner then I can’t speak to their individual experiences with that, but I am truly stunned to see such negative feedback for a doctor (and her staff) whom I value so much.

Dr Johnston gave new and possibly life changing information today. She provided information it with confidence and knowledge you can see she is sure of. This was a second opinion which is turned out to be the best move for my health. Thank you Dr!

This Doctor treated my daughter a couple of years ago for occipital neuralgia. At the beginning my daughter was a cash patient and she was treated great, and they were affordable treatments. She sent my daughter for a CT of her brain and by then she was Med-cal. When we went for the results, the Doctor spent less than three minutes with us and never actually came in the room. She stood at the door. We never got the results because she didnt have them (a month later) not did we get the prescription she was calling into our pharmacy. She told us before we left she didnt see Medi-cal patients. We havent been back. My daughter is still in pain daily! !

I suffer from chronic migraines with two auras. I got a referral to Dr. Johnston through a close friend and waited 6 months for my appt. When I went in, I provided Dr. Johnston with a detailed account of my migraines and gave her a copy of my Migraine journal that spans over a decade. Before I was even done talking she was writing prescription after prescription and never once actually diagnosed me. I took one of her medicines which did not help, and made me so dizzy I almost fell off the side of a mountain while hiking with my partner. The others were anti-depressants and some injection to use to in the event of an attack. I didnt feel comfortable trying out these random prescriptions without having the Doctor diagnose me and tell my why I was to try each medicine, just felt like she wrote a bunch of things down and sent me on my way, not solving the root cause.

Dr. Johnston at first comes across like she wants to help you. She initial thinks all her patients with migraines need her C1 C2 and C3 procedure she boasts about that will solve a patients migraine problems. I am active duty military, when my insurance would not cover the facility she uses and I told her I could not afford the $950 dollar payment to the facility fees for each of the 4 procedure she wanted to do. Dr. Johnston then changed her attitude and got really stuck up and did not want to deal with me any more. I felt like she did not care about my problems any more since I could not future her progress with her medical procedure. I do not see how she is in the position she is in, not people skill and do not ever try and ask for a phone consult, she is too important to call a patient back even if it is an emergency.

My experience was very similar to serenas, yet in a different way. I was referred to Johnston by one of her colleagues, for a procedure to help an existing, proven, fully-diagnosed condition. I had already had the procedure very successfully with another doctor once, and later a 2nd time it was botched and I had a very bad experience and horrible consequences. I was referred to her because she supposedly does this procedure regularly and safely, and I needed it, so it was a simple no-brainer. I just needed the procedure done correctly and I would have been fine. I absolutely trusted the referral and felt good heading into my consult, but my body was a bit deteriorated by then, I had a lot of painful areas from about a year of dealing with an unjury caused by my condition. So they sent me a 10-page pain assessment packet via email, prior to my appointment. I drove 3+ hours to get there and barely made it on time. I went to the address listed on all websites for her, even listed on uclas website, and arrived and found out she had moved at some point to the building across the way. I was going to be a few mins late traveling to the new bldg so they called to let them know I was walking over. When I arrived I was literally harassed by two office staff about how I could have gotten the wrong address. Thank God I had printed the website image and gave it to them, then I Googled her and showed them multiple web hits showing the wrong address, and no joke, they had to take my printed web page to physically show her it was incorrect because she doesnt see patients if they are late. They couldnt argue with clear proof and agreed to see me, so after that drama, while doing my vitals, a staff walks in to question where and how I got the 10-page paperwork I had filled out. I explained (and had printed the email!) that it was e-mailed to me by the ucla rep who scheduled my appointment. Again, they were frustrated and couldnt believe how I could have what they felt was incorrect paperwork. All I did was fill out what they gave me. This is so absurd, I couldnt make this up if I tried. So I finally get escorted to her office, where she is sitting behind a desk with my 10-page stack in front of her, she takes a history and then turns on me, points out one number on my pain assessment chart, gets fixated on it, and claims for the remainder of my time with her that there is no way you can have that high a pain index and not have fibromyalgia. So without examining me, she diagnosed me with fibromyalgia, based on a NUMBER on her paperwork. Regardless of what I told her (I have been tested multiple times for fibro and even rheumatologists have told me I dont have it, I CLEARLY have this other very painful and complicated condition, I wasnt there for a diagnosis, etc.), she insisted and proceeded to examine me in order to FIND fibromyalgia where fibromyalgia did not exist. I have asked 4 doctors since to examine me for fibro, all of them have told me I do not have fibro. She even at one point asked if I had pain in my lower extremities, which I do not. My condition is localized in my upper body. Her response was a very condescending, Thats good that it hasnt reached your legs yet. She told me she cant do the referred procedure on me because I have fibro, and all fibro patients will have adverse reactions. She ignored the fact that I had already had one very successful procedure already with no complications. Then she lectured me on pain medication because she believes fibro patients cant be on an opioid. I asked her what medication she thinks I am on and she did not know the answer. I educated her, I have the lowest-possible dose opioid and only take it as needed, and she still remained calm and condescending about it, and told me I needed to stop taking it. She wanted to force me into her fibro regiment and was fixated on it. So steer clear! The longer time passes and the more doctors I see who validate and treat my REAL condition and tell me for sure I do NOT have fibro, the more confident I am.

Mollie Johnston is a dangerous junior doctor who calls herself consultant only. I am disabled Wall Street investment banker who analyzed and rated institutes as a living and also worked in the medical field with hundreds of physicians across the spectrum. I predict this junior physician will endanger a patients life within five years and UCLA will bear the liability. Medicare patients do NOT waste your time with this program. Just read all the yelp reviews on UCLA neurology. Jonston is the most ignorant, egotistic, and condescending one I have encountered. This doctor doesnt even know Cymboltas maximum dosage. She almost prescribed me a migraine device that cannot be used on stroke patients which she was repeatedly informed that I suffer from stroke during the 10 minute consul before kicking me out after refusing to write a migraine prescription.In addition, Johnston mocked my dysarthria after being used as a guinea pig for a experimental blind cervical nerve block unrelated for trigeminal neuropathy treatment at USC Pain Center.Without reviewing my previous two specialists (who are double certified in neurology and pain management, including one UCLA neurologist) diagnosis on several neurologic conditions and performing a physical exam, she quickly came with a wrong diagnosis in less than one minute while the previous two spent 30-50 minutes to come up with the conclusion. Even after I repeated twice one of my previous specialists who caused me stroke by over sedating me for doing a closed brain MRI, she still wanted to kick me back to see him. After she finally ran out of excuses, she then told me Medicare is not contacted with MY surgical center.The lack of knowledge and lack of attention to detail in the brief visit was appalling. She doesnt know the name of the two other migraine devices and I even knew more than her. She called the headache program coordinator MY nurse practitioner who actually works for the entire 12 specialists. The ignorance, unprofessionalism and obnoxious demeanor is truly unparalleled. I had to check the name on her coat to confirm it was actually the doctor herself. The bar to enter academic medicine is low these days as her credential speaks it all. The elites are all in high demands in private practice with high pay and busy patient traffic. The lower quality and less motivated ones end up in university with lower pay, a slower paced environment and hide behind the university when recklessness and negligence occurs or when they use you as a guinea pig. Image only about 200 patient for 12 specialists in the headache program.For me, a home- confined stroke patient with over 20 permanent damages and in 24/7 pain who waited close to two months and travelled 60 miles in Uber to seek treatment there, money is never an issue but the cash option was never discussed because her expression, tone and attitude said it all before quickly walked out. I was stunned and was speechless for a second. However, the damage did not stop there. The next day when I left message for a UCLA pain mgmt. doctor whose name was given to me by Johstons office manager who sympathized me, this doctor violated HIPPA by reviewing Johstons notes without my knowledge and based on her wrong diagnosis which Johnston used as an excuse to cover up the insurance reason and refused to provide service over the phone. I have five or six headache related neurological conditions which Johnston manipulated into one wrong diagnosis. This puts an end with seeking treatment with UCLA.There are so many complaints against the doctors at the headache program that patient experience speaks to its office manger on a daily basis. The HIPPA violation at that pain management location is so common that patient experience mentioned they do it all the time. This is the UCLA you dont know!

She is the best.