I've just found out about reviews and such about Dr.Mary Valente…read more This is my family MD for over 23 years and I find it very wrong of many reviews due to the fact that people are so very wrong. My rating of this Dr is 0 out of the 5 star rating. Cindy is the only person that should be rated 5 out of 5! She is the honest one and I trust her more with my life than the actual Dr. I've been fighting for my life since 2014, many surgeries and procedures with numerous other Drs and specialists, who have done wonders for me. I've had many suggestions from top Drs in the area,and from other destinations and when I bring these suggestions to Dr Valente they are ignored. I've proved her to be lying to me about medications and she just sits there and still tells me I'm wrong!!! She had me on fentynal, for years, but it wasnt enough for a man with pancreas problems and 3 broken vertibrea and 7 missing and blown discs. 75ml patches is the biggest patch they make and Canadian Law states that is the biggest dose allowed. Hhmmm, this seems weird I thought, because my oldest sister who was a specialized air ambulance paramedic that did not fly on helicopters, but in an ambulance that was a plane that flew all over north america. My sister was qualified to administer quite afew medications to her patients, but her career was shortened as a result of an accident where my sisters fate was altered because her shoulder ended up half way down her side. I did spend time with my sister and spoke with her often. Her dose at that time was 125ml, and I saw her wearing a 100ml patch, plus the 25ml patch, that was about the time I asked for an increase for my pain control, because my pain has almost never been controlled. Still she says I'm the one wrong!!! I've been many times in the care of Drs in the hospital, and they do help. Then I go to see Dr Mary to continue the pain control set out by a hospital Dr, or specialist, and again ignored. I sleep maybe 8-12 hours a week if I'm lucky! I am diabetic and from the diabetes clinic for complex control for diabetics tell me I need to eat to control my sugar levels in order to live. Problem is I can't eat hardly due to the pain I'm constantly suffering from. I've had so many ambulance rides in 2018 due to super low sugar levels and also extreme high sugar levels that I can't even begin to count. I can't live in the rural area I grew up in, because I need to be in the city, so I'm only minutes from the emergency room. Big changes in my life,yes. And I've had a back surgery earlier this year and there is still extreme pain because 2 days after my back surgery while still in the hospital i had an issue.So after decades of numbness and pain due to a 600lb log falling out of a crane when I built log homes 28 years ago. It landed on me when I was on the house wall, and I fell many feet to the ground, and the log then came of the building within a second and landed on me again. Kinda hurt, but 4 strong men lifted the log off of me, I got up and was driven to the emerge. I WALKED into the emerge under my own power covered in blood and sawdust, sorta seeing only tunnel vision due to massive blood loss. I was seen instantly, no xray, just many stitches in my head and I walked out, sorta weak still because I was still short of acoulpe litres of blood. I went straight to my Foreman's house to have a much needed cold beer, that was a Friday evening. I took the next week off, then was back at work, doing my regular job. Plus I've been run over, not hit, but literally ran over, more than once, and even dragged under the vehicles. Every time I got up and walked into emerge, got stitched up and always went home to have a deserved cold beer. No 911 needed for me for what I feel to be just part of life and no big deal,lol!!! These are only a few events that I've been through, many others, that some consider extreme, in short, I'm NO WHIMP!!! As I've aged, yeah, things did catch up with me. In 2014, I went from a solid man of 230lbs to under 120lbs in about a 3 month period. That's the last time I was able to work. Do I have a life??? No. My days usually consist of 20-22 hrs a day in bed struggling with massive pain. Paramedics know me much to well, same as emergency staff, with the many times I need to be brought in because of high or low sugars. Why do sugar levels get so far out of whack I'm always asked. Well, I tell them I wasn't able to eat for sometimes well over a week. Why I'm asked?? Its due to uncontrolled pain levels. The emergency team fixes me. Dr Valente always disagree s with ALL the other Drs and specialists. When it comes to simple things, she's OK. But when it comes to complicated issues, she's lost!! Sad. She has taken my life completely away from me. And tells me she can't give anything cuz shes tying to save my life. What life????? Friends and family don't visit cuz I'm just so miserable Thanks Dr Valente for taking every aspect of my life away. Troy Jacobson