Rona Bernadette, MD

Dr. Bernadette is a great doctor. She is extremely knowledgeable, patient and takes time to answer all of my questions. Her online scheduling system is easy to use. I find her to be professional and competent. I highly recommend her.

As a referring clinician, I continue to find Dr Bernadette astute, accessible, and accurate. She goes out of her way to pinpoint diagnoses, is creative and flexible with patients’ resistances to medications, is patient, and very trustworthy. Some people have had difficulty with her directness, however they have come around to see she was accurate, current, and concerned.

Beware of her she will not follow through with returning phone calls especially if you need her to contact one of your doctors. She’s often on vacation. Has a rude demeanor.

Dr Bernadette is a thoughtful listener with a talent for asking perceptive questions. She has a true genius for remaining supportive while helping guide you toward an understanding of the challenges you face. I find her to be knowledgeable and caring, a calming force. She has helped me through several difficult periods in my life. I would recommend her to anyone.

Dr. Bernadette is a life saver. Dr. Bernadette is a pharmacologist, psychiatrist and a doctor. She has been treating me for over 10 years from a college grad through motherhood. I met her at New York Pres. Cornell Med Center in Westchester NY. She was the head doctor in the acute unit. I am a successful Montessori educator specializing in infants and toddlers a mom to my now 7 year old daughter & an entrepreneur owed in big part to Dr. Bernadette. She was my guiding light through the darkness or depression and the fears of impulsive behaviors. She looks at life through the a realistic and rational gaze. I understand as I look at her in the eyes that she believes that life is good and it is up to her to help to lead me through a path of my own. The illness that almost killed me & recked my family and future has given me a beautiful life because I met Dr. Rona Bernadette. Her care is not a medicine fix all or a crutch. It is the perfect balance of the mind give and get. She gives the power of choice back in your life when you feel like you have none at all. I more than highly recommend her care and believe that she integrates her knowledge with an understood responsibly of patients choice to empower the mind.

Unfortunately she was incredibly unhelpful when it came to working with the insurance company or filling out the proper paper work on medication she prescribed. It seemed like every step of the way she was simply trying to get out of doing any of the work.
Both the insurance company and pharmacist were telling me she was the only person who could make it happen but she would tell me to talk to the pharmacist and pass it off.
Instead of concern about my health or trying to help me get on medication she recommended it felt a lot like a business. There are simply too many doctors in NYC to have to put up with being treated soo poorly.

I went in to find out what medications would be best for my anxiety given that I am currently breastfeeding my son. Without any research or thought, Dr. Bernadette recommended Prozac and Xanax claiming that both have been around for a long time. I left feeling unheard and ill advised. Upon consulting with a more qualified specialist I found out that the most recent study in the area showed Prozac and Xanax to be unsafe for breastfeeding mothers. Needless to say I threw out the prescriptions and cancelled my next appointment.

Very knowledgable in the variety of available treatments. I highly recommend her.