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I went to her for years. Sent me to Philly to see a bizarre doctor and she had diagnosed me with PSVT which every other doctor said I did not have. She will remain completely silent at an appt and appears to not know what she is talking about. She \"treated\" my father for a short time as we changed cardiologists from someone she told me was awful. The other doctor was horrible in that he prescribed unnecessary medications and did a lot of constant unnecessary tests and was emotionally abusive to my father, but Dr. Kulkarni did not treat my father at all and he died as a result. Today is 3 years since his death and it's taken me this long to write this review. Her Bridgewater office messed up my father's coumadin results with his mother's records (she's in her 90's). When I pointed it out, the staff then told me how several office staff have been fired because people died due to their mistakes. My father had heart failure. Dr. Kulkarni chose to not to treat him and told me \"That's nothing\" and dismissed it. His BNP was in the thousands. She said he did not need surgery on his heart valves and you don't want to do surgery too soon so we did not go to a surgeon as the other doctor suggested. She said his liver was the problem. She took him off of coumadin, lowered the statin and beta blocker. My father was 63. He had a TIA at age 39 and had AFib that was hard to control. Also had a history of very high blood pressure. Whenever my mother or I went to an appt with my father, Dr. Kulkarni said nothing at the appt.....literally nothing. The most we got out of her is \"everything looks fine.\" He was dying and it was clear to all of us and she did NOTHING which is why he died. If it wasn't for lack of heart treatment, he would be alive today. His last stay in the hospital, I read the Kulkarni notes that the electrophysiologist was supposed to come in to put in a pacemaker (which she should have told us he needed months earlier but didn't) and he never came. The Patel doctor from the group that was not an electrophysiologist came in and he did nothing either. The electrophysiologist never came in to my father's room. My father subsequently died days later when his heart got to be twice it's normal size, the right side stopped functioning and he had cardiac arrest. To further prove she did nothing, when he went to a transplant hospital for an evaluation for a liver transplant, the insurance sent him a letter saying they approve a HEART transplant and that is what he needed. He did not need a liver transplant. He was having problems with the liver because of the heart. Kulkarni only words were \"his heart is not the problem.\" All of his doctors got together after his death and concluded the heart was the problem and main cause of death. I was informed of this after the fact. I tried to talk to Dr. Kulkarni after his death and she was mean and rude and would not answer most of my questions. I asked her if my father had needed heart valve surgery and she said yes he needed surgery but it was too late. She is the one who told us to wait and not do it and who did not treat his heart failure and AFib. I asked her if he would have survived if he got the surgery right before he died and she said probably not. My father died because she failed to care for him and said he didn't have a heart problem. There are so many mistakes made in this office and with her failure to treat my father properly and me when I was a patient. My advice - stay away. She also kept telling me that the cause of my father being in the hospital was alcohol consumption. He wasn't even drinking! Those are very serious assumptions when the family knows what is really going on as opposed to someone who sees him every few months and sits there silently for 10 minutes and won't even talk to the patient. My advice - stay away. Especially if you want to live. Go to a doctor that answers all your questions and you don't have to harass to get any answer, who willingly gives you information and doesn't falsely accuse you of doing things you are not doing and who is capable of treating heart failure and AFib. There is no communication with this doctor and the office makes horrendous errors. My best guess is they were also mixing up my father's test results with his daughters, as well as his mothers but only they know that now. Find a doctor that cares to take care of their patients, does not lack all communication skills and can identify serious, obvious heart conditions. 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