How in the world did he get rid of his old yelp reviews? Well, one more reason not to trust Yelp.
I have been sounding the alarm about this doctor for years- one who dropped me without the 30 days of care required by law before I found another doctor. I was taking 2mg of Suboxone a day. Normal dose is 16mg. My bf had had a drug problem i was unaware of and I didn't know he had been stealing from me, i kept calling Dimonte's office to make an appt to get my medication but they would not call me back. I didn't understand what was going on. I was calling daily, going through withdrawal, unaware that it had only been maybe 2.5 or 3 weeks since i had last gotten an Rx. Finally one of the office girls - who I doubt are still there but at the time were Megan and Julie and they would treat me like a completely different person if I called Dimonte as my primary care doctor (which he was as well) as opposed to calling the separate phone number/business name that his Sub patients were given. So one of the girls says finally "you aren't due for a refill for over a week. You can't have any more." And hung up.
I screamed at my bf and he admitted it. I called back and said that I wanted to bring him in to confess to them and that they could drug test him - although idk if they had the capabilities because for the 7 years I was his patient with 12 sub appts a year, I was not given a urinalysis once. Never.
They said they would talk to the doctor but the next day I got a letter saying I was kicked out of his practice and he would still be my dr for 30 days as required by law. Dimonte knew the only reason i still took subs was because my stomach never stopped emptying without them (but he never suggested it was an underlying cause even though my next sr, an incredibly amazing one, mentioned it in the intake, So he is still my dr for 30 days while i scramble to find another doctor.
So he should let me bring my bf in and give me at least a week's worth. But nope, he never returned a single call and neither did his office and as a result, 9 years sobriety went down the drain.
That is one little nothing story out of a ton i have. But the most DAMNING and DISTURBING thing is that he was never named in connection with the Murray Overhill pharmacy arrests.
The entire time I went to him, his Sub patients were only allowed to go to one pharmacy (very sus in itself) and that pharmacy was... Murray Overhill. The weirdest part about it though was that I was bitching to a guy who was waiting in the waiting room with me about it and he looked confused and said that he could take his sub script anywhere he wanted. Maybe this was a coincidence and i really hope it was because the alternative- that only female patients were sent there - is sinister. I'm not saying that is the case. However, this is:
For at least a decade, Dr DiMonte had a mandatory rule about opiate addicts on Suboxone going to only 1 pharmacy. That pharmacist has since been indicted for trading sexual favors for opiates. He also ordered more opiates than a pill mill. Why has no one made this connection?
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