Dr. Brian J Harley

Listened to me. Great humor and bedside manner. Found EXACT spot of injury within seconds. Explained how the tendon worked in everyday language. Administered cortisone shot with looooong needle expertly. Highly recommended.

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Dr. Harley and his staff at Upstate Orthopedics are outstanding. Professional, yet patient and kind. Highly recommend.

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Excellent Doctor, easy to talk with, explains everything, answered all my questions, very thorough on plan of care.

I cannot say enough positive things about Dr. Harley and his staff. When I originally contacted his office, I had already been through a year and a half of pain, procedures and doctors. I had suffered a rare trauma resulting in excruciating pain and foot drop. Finally, I found Dr. Harley. He and I discussed two possible surgeries: a tendon transfer and the more rare, and I believe the more desirable surgery, the bridle procedure. After weighting pros, cons and risks of each, we decided the bridle procedure was my best option. It was a successful surgery, and I am now walking again quite normally without a brace nor scars. I am attaching the link to a video that sums up my two-year journey in 4 minutes. Again, I can not recommend Dr. Harley strongly enough. He showed me compassion and was both professional and personable throughout the entire process from the first phone call to my last post-surgery appointment. Please copy and paste the following: youtu.be/hPeHE3VcM30

Was referred from another orthopedic group, isn't fixing the problem I was sent for and being in pain every day and having hands lock up and affect my work is horrible. Was told when I saw him it would be 2 to 3 weeks for surgery and here it is at my third week mark and still no answers as of when my surgery will be. This is no except able. Still need clearance from other providers and still not set up for that as well yet. Was referred from another orthopedic group, isn't fixing the problem I was sent for and being in pain every day and having hands lock up and affect my work is horrible. Was told when I saw him it would be 2 to 3 weeks for surgery and here … More

After suffering for months with chronic elbow pain from waterskiing, one visit to Dr Harley and the pain is gone. Totally gone! I was able to resume waterskiing just a week after my visit. Now after a couple of months, not a bit of pain. Thank you Dr Harley.

Hard to read these reviews. Not my experience one bit. I found him uncaring and wanting to rush out of the room. Failed to inform me as to length of recovery which puts me in a financial bind. Was told that I would be good to go only 3 mos after surgery, I find out that it's more like 6 months or more. I will never go back to him.

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This Doctor is great- especially for hands, However he was on call when a family member was in a car accident & He did awesome work on her leg as well. He is a wonderful and highly reliable doctor.

I broke my wrist in 12 places. Dr Harley was amazing. Fixed it all and 2 surgeries later, I function perfectly, like nothing ever happened.

Dr Harley made it possible for me to use my right arm again after a car accident.Forever grateful!

Dr. Brian Harley and his group are amazing. He's an excellent surgeon and doctor. I highly recommend him to anyone . His talent has made a huge difference in my life (just had surgery by him end of May) I can't say enough wonderful things.

Dr Harley is extremely kind and caring. He listens to what you have to say and gives the most understanding explanations 3 years ago I got into a very bad snowmobile accident. I broke 10 bones including both hips tail bone ribs and I completely destroyed/ shattered my left humerus (shoulder) He was the surgeon on call and I got transferred to upstate. I will never not be extremely GRATEFUL for him. I have two working arms thanks to him and his very professional team. The after care visits were wonderful as well. Dr Harley is extremely kind and caring. He listens to what you have to say and gives the most understanding explanations 3 years ago I got into a very bad snowmobile accident. I broke 10 bones … More

Have seen Dr. Harley several times. Most recent is definitely the last. Went to him initially because of his experience but will not go back. Have been told he is a great surgeon but he always seemed annoyed, dismissive, uninterested. At times he is condescending and just plain rude. He may be a great surgeon but we have found a much better practice in Syracuse with great doctors who care about their patients, are kind and compassionate and obviously love what they do.

This was a second opinion for my severe hand pain. He did NOT listen to anything I said or explained. It was obvious he didn't read my prior medicals. Absolutely NO bedside manner. Quick to schedule me for surgery and afterwards didn't want to hear anything about my continuing complaints. It was VERY obvious he thought he was above anything I knew about my symptoms. I would NOT recommend him to ANYONE!!! Heartless. Heartless. Heartless. This was a second opinion for my severe hand pain. He did NOT listen to anything I said or explained. It was obvious he didn't read my prior medicals. Absolutely NO bedside manner. Quick to schedule me for surgery and afterwards didn't want … More

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Could barely give us the time of day for a congenital hand deformity for my infant. Literally did not even look at his chart - came in saying my son was missing a bone (he's not) so there's nothing he could do. When we corrected him, he didn't even look at the x-ray and still said nothing could be done to help him. Thankfully we got a second opinion from the doctors at Strong Hospital who said they could in fact do many things to help my child.

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I transferred to Dr. Harley after I was diagnosed with a non-union fracture of my left ulna. Dr. Harley was extremely direct in his explanation of what was going on with my arm and what the best course of treatment would be. I have required a total of three surgeries (the second and third were with Dr. Harley). He has continually made me feel at ease about something that causes me a decent amount of stress and he's always answered any questions I've had. I highly recommend him.

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Had to amputate my index finger, but saved my the rest of my left hand from severe de gloving in a car wreck 9 years ago. I'm so thankful Dr. Harley was on call that night! Still golfing to this day!!

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From the very first visit, following a traumatic wrist fracture, Dr. Harley was nearly totally inaccessible. I waited patienly for several hours, underwent a scan that resulted in further injury to ribs that were also damaged in the fall (was told that Harley's office did not deal with ribs, and they evidently had not taken this secondary injury into account). I saw Harley only twice, and only because I insisted. The healing outcome for the wrist was unsatisfactory, requiring corrective surgery.

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