Bachner Evan J. M.D.

Yeah… I sat in the waiting room for 45 minutes and another 10 minutes in the exam room. It’s a BIG, busy practice. No apology was given and no notice that there would be a wait. Interesting, because it used to be this way with primary care and less so with specialty care. It shouldn’t be this way. I didn’t appreciate it. But let’s look at it from the doctor’s perspective…
Consider orthopedic surgeons deal with pretty complicated patients. Lots of them are older. They require a lot of hand holding. They have lots of questions before and after surgery and so coincidentally do parents of children who have surgery. Same thing with diagnosing a new patient. These things take time. Dr. Bachner spent a good 15 minutes with me. When I got to the waiting room there were at least 40 people there. Consider that multiplied by 15 or 20 minutes each…
In my case, I fully expected Dr. Bachner to tell me that I required surgery for my shoulder injury. He didn’t. He diagnosed me with a frozen shoulder and told me I need PT for six weeks, prescribed anti-​inflamms and told me it’s going to take a lot of work and will be MF painful. I respect that. Most surgeons would have said they wanted to operate…
Yay for me… Yay for the doc. We’ll see what happens in six weeks. For now, I say A-​OK.

I have been a patient of Dr. Bachner since 2000. after a bad accident in 2001, he had me back to be active when other doctors said I would never be able to do again. He just recently took care of a knee issue. the whole group is great!

Years ago my son fractured his growth plate and we were referred to Dr. Bachner by our Pediatrician whom I trust greatly. A couple years later my son fractured the same ankle, so we went back to Dr. Bachner’s office because he was the treating doctor last time. Throughout both experiences, Dr. Bachner was excessively late for our appointment and utilized poor bed side manner. As a family, we decided once my son’s ankle heals, we would not return to the office to be treated by the doctor.
Now this brings us to the present. My daughter has a fracture in her ankle joint and surgery has been offered as a solution and before we move forward, we wanted to get as second opinion. Without giving thought to the past, I scrolled through my cell phone and looked up the orthopedic # I had listed, which happened to be Dr. Bachner. So my daughter and I drive 40 minutes to meet with him to go over the MRI results and hear what his treatment plan would be if he was the treating doctor. Once we arrived, we waited an hour before put into a waiting room, than an assistant came in and downloaded and the information I brought for review and continued to wait another 45 minutes. At this point, I was very angry when I recalled this doctor did this to us repeatedly in the past. As we were walking out of the waiting room to leave, Dr. Bachner was reviewing my daughters information. When I expressed my frustration at his lateness, he replied «Well I’m here now, would you still like to meet?» I figured,
we’ve waited this long, we may as well meet with him and get it over with. Once he reviewed the files, he began criticizing the orthopedic doctor that was treating my daughter for requesting 2 MRI’s so close together. This criticism became the focal point for Dr. Bachner and failed to focus on what his opinion of treatment should be. Even after several attempts to keep him on track it became evident that this conversation was going no where. I stood up, gathered my daughter and paperwork and we left.
In the time that Dr. Bachner was with my daughter and myself, he never made a mention of recalling my son’s case and treatment of him, nor did he acknowledge being late to our appointment. He displayed arrogance and was plan flat rude throughout our time together. I’ve never experienced anything like it, with any doctor in the past. He should be ashamed of himself for treating patience as if they have no value and what he is doing is what matters most.
The good news is that, we found an amazing surgeon and he will provide treatment of my daughter.

I have to agree with the other reviews. He makes you wait and no apologies what so ever. I was going to him for 4 years until I let him cut me to no avail. Finally found another Dr. and he’s giving me shots which are helping. Think twice when all they want to do is slice and dice

I had meniscus surgery on my knee. My follow up visits were a disaster. Waiting times of over one hour consistently. No apology from Bachner. He shows no compassion or sympathy. There are many other orthopedists out there. You can do MUCH better. On top of everything else, 2 months later I still have the same knee pain I started with.

I hate a doctor’s office that thinks their time is more valuable than yours. I’ve had four appointments with Bachner’s office and two of those times I’ve had to wait over an hour. The other two times weren’t much better.
The first three appointments were all THE FIRST APPOINTMENT OF THE DAY. How are you an HOUR behind schedule with your first appointment of the day?
There has never been so much as an acknowledgment of the lateness let alone an apology. I actually left today after I heard the guy in the next room telling the nurse he had been there for two hours waiting to see the doctor. I won’t be back.
And, yes, they practice the «stick-him-in-a-room-and-take-his-blood-pressure-and-maybe-he’ll-be-OK-with-another-45-minutes-of-waiting» method of stalling their patients.
Restaurants and doctors and grocery stores with long lines all need to understand that we are paying customers and if they can’t show some respect for our time, we’ll go somewhere else.