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Dr. Brown and his wife, 
Kathleen, (center) 
surrounded by their 
children, grandchildren 
and other family members.

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A

journey of his lifetime took place 
in Detroit on Aug. 6.
Dr. Richard Brown, who is 
celebrating 60 years as an inner-city 
physician, commemorated the milestone 
with his family on a bus tour of his life-
long personal, professional and Jewish 
journeys. 
The tour had members of three gen-
erations of Brown’s family take part, 
including his children and grandchil-
dren. It was his wife, Kathleen Brown, 
who organized the bus tour with a driv-
er, tour guide and all.
“The idea was to see where I lived, how 
I grew up, where my children were born 
and lived, where I worked and the syna-
gogues that I belonged to and went to as a 
kid,” Dr. Brown said. 
Brown grew up in Detroit, and after 
going to osteopathic college in Iowa, 
returned to Detroit and had training in 
the inner city starting in 1960.
Sixty years later, Brown’s medical 
organization, Park Medical Centers, has 
multiple clinics in Detroit and surround-
ing areas. Most of them are in the city, 
with others in Livonia, Wixom, Canton, 
Roseville and the original building in 

Lincoln Park. Brown has practiced at the 
same clinic in Detroit for 25 years.
For Brown, showing his family real 
snapshots of his personal, professional 
and religious life as the tour bus traveled 
from location to location was a special 
treat. The trip served as a filling-in-the-
blanks exercise for many of his family 
members, who had only heard about his 
upbringing through words and photos. 
“It meant a lot that they were inter-
ested,” Brown said. “I think they appre-
ciated it.”

ON THE TOUR
On the trip, Brown was given a flag of the 
city of Detroit by the tour guide. Brown 
asked his wife to take a picture of him 
holding up the flag and to send it to a 
friend of 25 years: Mike Duggan, mayor 
of Detroit. 
“We’re really good friends,” Brown said. 
“He ran the Detroit Medical Center, and 
we communicate frequently.” 
Then, the bus tour had an event 
planned by Kathleen, unbeknownst to Dr. 
Brown.
“I said OK, I’ll send Mayor Duggan the 
picture, but little did he know this was the 

surprise of the day,” Kathleen Brown said. 
“I then said to Richard, ‘You asked me to 
deliver the picture of you with the flag to 
Mike Duggan. I’ll do better than that, I’ll 
deliver you to him.’”
The next stop was Brown’s office, where 
a car waiting for them contained Mayor 
Duggan, who then came out of the car to 

Detroit physician still works full-time, fi
 ve days a week.
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DANNY SCHWARTZ STAFF WRITER

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COURTESY OF KATHLEEN BROWN

Dr. Richad Brown 
displays the city 
of Detroit flag he 
was given,

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