Peter Birnbaum, DO

Dr. Birbaum is a incredible Doctor. When you speak with you actually can understand what he is saying he uses words that normal people understand. He is very compassionate, a great listener and never makes you feel like he is a rush. Dr. Birbaum is a orthopedic surgeon. I have seeing him for over a year a feel he needed a overdue review. 10 stars to Doctor Birbaum. Thank you.

I saw Dr Birnbaum this week. I was hesitant because of some of the reviews on here, I took my chance and went, I’m glad I went. I was seen for my trigger finger in my thumb and got a cortisone shot. I would highly recommend him. The staff is very friendly also.

Great doctor, very knowledgeable and good bedside manor!

I would highly recommend Dr. Birnbaum to anyone. He did a great job treating my leg and ankle injuries. The surgery went very well and I have recovered without any complications whatsoever. Dr. Birmbaum is very informative and took a lot of time answering my questions. His staff is very friendly and professional. and very helpful dealing with my insurance problems, they were on top of it! I’m thankful that he was the doctor assigned to me and now that I have this relationship with him, he will be my preferred orthopedic specialist!!!

I have been a patient of dr Birnbaum for the past two years. Eventually I will have him do surgery on my thumb joint. I am surprised at some negative reviews because the office staff have always been professional and courteous. I have never waited more than 15 minutes to see the doctor. Dr Birnbaum in conjunction with me, has never pressured me to set a surgical date. He has only showed compassion and allotted me ample time for questions. I highly recommend him.

Had a lot of faith he would do an excellent job. Well I had a botched surgery. Cannot wear a ring. Scar tissue formed no instructions on after care. He does not talk or act like a Dr should. He cares about the cash coming in not the patient. He spends very little time with you.

I was referred to Dr. Birnbaum from another doctors office and I had to have surgery on my right foot and he did a fabulous job. If I had to have any other surgeries I would have Dr. Birnbaum do them. He was very nice and he answered all my concerns. I would recommend him to all. The staff is very nice as well. Janie

I had 3 different opinions regarding removing the hardware from my left ankle when I broke it in 2003. Dr. B was the best Dr. I delt with. And his office staff was great! especially Wendy, the office manager. She was very nice and made sure I was taken care of by the staff at the hospital that Dr. B performed my surgery at. I would recommend this Dr. and his staff to anyone. I will tell you, even if the Dr. was great but the staff was rude or terrible, I wouldn’t see the Dr. But in this case, you have both a great Dr. and a great staff.
I am in and out of his office in less than 30 min. every time. I have seen him for not only my ankle, but my knee and my wrist as well. If you have a choice, go see Dr. Peter Birnbaum.

I made a horrible mistake proceeding with the surgery of my hand with Peter Birnbaum. I allowed him to do an operation he had never done before, but he acted so confident I went ahead. He did a brutal job. It was so messy and so much blood splattered on an assisting technician, that I was asked to take a blood test for any infectious disease. It was touch and go if my finger would die and a very long painful recovery. The follow-​up procedure required a skin graft I learned later, and Birbaum did not know that.

I was a little worried before I visited Dr. Birnbaum because the Unilocal reviews did not seem very good, and after my Nov. 13 appointment… up to now, I decided he is a good and experienced doctor, not only that he cured my thumb pain by giving me the shot, but also he told me up front that it will take a week or so to see the result, so I didn’t become paranoid and search for further unnecessary assistance, the office clerks were all friendly and efficient, I could tell that everyone there tried to improve their service to recover from those bad reviews previously, believe me I saw worse doctors and nurses but I was too lazy to write the review, but Dr. Birnbaum really deserves good review. –Carol

You don’t really get a choice when you have an HMO I guess, but if you do… Don’t chose to see Dr. B if you can see a higher rated hand specialist. My complaints have to do with his lack of bedside manner. I really just felt like a dollar sign to him — get em in get em out and line the pockets with some $. I tried to ask for more information about my condition, and he had no desire to educate/​inform me as his patient. I was having surgery, and I shouldn’t humor him with trying to have my pea brain understand a medical condition that he had to do 8 yrs of med school to understand. I’ve seen doctors that lack bedside manner, but this was pretty bad. Two months later I get a bill in the mail for $ 1000+ and no one ever said anything about insurance not covering the surgery, usually patients are told when they have to cover a balance, right… after calling a few times to the office (that was on vacation) I finally am told to call their billing office… the lady told me to disregard the bill because it was sent in «error»… are you SERIOUS??? so what would’ve happened if I paid without questioning it… what a SCAM… when asked if I would get something in the mail to let me no there was a zero balance, «we’ll probably send something»… yeaaaaa OK… who knows, maybe now i’ll get a bill because of my Unilocal review. bottom line. STAY AWAY!

Dr Peter Birnbaum, DO is an exceptional orthopedic hip surgeon. I am baffled who says below he is a podiatrist. Anyway, I had lumbar surgery in Mar 2014, but then fell at home Jul 2014 and broke my hip. He was the surgeon assigned to me at St Joseph’s Hospital in Orange.
I’m mid fifties and my hip bone was not arthritic. He had to determine what type of surgery would be best for me in the long term. Especially, because I have several complicated chronic health issues. He communicated clearly with me and my family. He clearly wanted me to have a great outcome not complicating any of my existing problems further.
I’m at 3 weeks post hemi replacement, am walking with a cane and pain is minimal.
I can’t say enough about this top notch surgeon. I wouldn’t hesitate to refer him to family and/​or friends.
P. S. Don’t be put off by the older building his office is located at. He is the only orthopedic surgeon in his practice and his office is just fine.

I went to Dr. Birnbaum because my grandparents are patients of his.
Maybe he had a bad day or maybe he is more kind to his elderly patients than his younger patients because he was unnecessarily rude to me.
I had gone to my family Dr. to remove a plantar wart (not the best idea probably) but Dr. Birnbaum practically mocked me for having done so. He likened it to going to the family Dr. for dental work, instead of the specialist in the field.
Anyways, the removal of the plantar wart had been quite a traumatic experience for me and therefore, when Dr. Birnbaum went to examine my foot I was extremely tense and nervous. He was completely unsympathetic and made me feel stupid for being nervous.
He froze the area to see if he could further remove the wart and then made a follow up appt with me that I never went back for. I had been humiliated enough at my first visit, thank you.
He may be my grandparents podiatrist, but he had little to no bed side manner and was very rough, unsympathetic and rude in my opinion.
I have a new podiatrist. Dr. Kolodenker and he has all the things Dr. Birnbaum wasn’t.