Dr. Brad Joseph Bernardini, MD

Where do I even begin… I had surgery in June, 2022. I had osteochondral defects in my knee. Surgery to repair the defect was done. When I began having significant swelling after my knee gave out in my kitchen in Dec, I went to the urgent care, I was told to use pain gel, then I was told it was bursitis and then I was told I had a stress fracture… all of which were untrue. Yet he had me on crutches for two months. Bone marrow edema is common after the type of surgery I had for up to a year or longer (I have since read medical journals about it). The provider simply wanted me to be on crutches and blamed my PT for the issue. Knowing the diagnosis was incorrect, I went to another provider. We did a minimally invasive procedure and he uncovered a torn meniscus, hanging soft cartilage from one of the grafts, and an almost completely torn acl. He was able to take care of the meniscus and dead piece of cartilage right away and now I’m scheduled for ACL reconstruction. When I spoke to the… provider at Reconstructive about all of this, he dismissed me. He contradicted himself saying in one breath he didn’t believe I have an acl tear and in another he said he does not believe my new provider would just say I have a tear when I do not. I also expressed how I did not appreciate him telling me not to gain weight as a way to help my knees (in one appointment he said I have a grade 3 meniscus tear in the other knee and now he says it is a grade 2…umm meniscus tears do not improve on their own). Moreover, I am not overweight and BMI is an incredibly outdated measurement to utilize/assess a patients weight. Additionally, when a provider keeps putting a patient on crutches without finding the real knee problem, weight is hard to keep off. This provider does not seem to care about mental health or the toll all of these things take on a person. His notes are often inconsistent or incorrect as well. Dr. Brad Bernardini, please slow down a little bit. Things were missed and it’s not one persons fault, it’s a combination of factors. Please do better, some of us actually educate ourselves as a way to be able to get better and to advocate for ourselves. I never thought I would find articles showing evidence you were wrong and I never thought two providers would tell me what you said didn’t make sense (one teaches on the very procedure you did on em and was my orthopedic doctor for over a decade in another state). I just hope you remember my case for the next patient who comes in and has no improvement…please look deeper next time.

After reading glowing reviews for this doctor i was so disappointed to find him to be another waste of a $60 copay. He lacked compassion and did not provide even basic care for a very immediate need. From the moment he walked into the exam room he seemed eager to exit. I do not recommend this doctor, especially if you have a chronic condition that is even moderate in complexity.

Dr. Brad Bernardini is an excellent doctor. I trust him with my life!! He is the BEST!! Will recommend him to everyone!!! He is not only the best doctor in the operating room, but also while you are in the office, telling him your problems, he listens to every word, he is the BEST!!!!