Dr Montgomery will gladly see you so he can send you a bill, without actually helping you at all.

Submitted Dec. 2, 2015

Always in a rush. Gives less than 5 minutes, a mere disappointment

Submitted July 3, 2015

Happy Infertity Awareness week!!!
I want to share my story and then let you know where it has lead. There is no help for people like me, and I had to make this happen. But my story comes with something that for 40 years, my father, a circulation nurse in an NJ OR, has never seen on his table. An evisceration. My life ended February 25, 2010. By the hands of Dr. Myron Levine & Dr. Ben Montgomery. Two doctors known to be the best at overcoming infertility. I had a surgery recommended by Dr Levine who is now, probably drinking Mai Tai's on the beach of Boca.The day of discharge, Dr. Ben did the rounds, he hardly took a glance that morning and said I was fine to go home. However, I had to wait for my husband. A few hours later, iv was removed, and I felt an indescribable pain, ripping, and burning in my abdomen. I called, no screamed for the nurses. I was told since I was discharged, they would call Dr. & I was given Tylenol 3. When my husband and father in law came, I got dressed but my bandage felt wet and squishy. The nurse checked it in the bathroom, told me to get back in bed immediately. My husband lifted the bandage and there was a purplish pink bulge sticking out. I panicked and more came out. It was my intestines. For over 2 hours, and I have a nurse to attest that day, the nurses were pouring saline on me, with housekeeping following behind mopping up the wet floor. Somehow I managed to get a hold of Dr. Levine. He came up & told me had I left I would have died. There was an ice storm that day and the anesthesiologist was on Back Mountain, we had to wait for him before going back into surgery. I formed a seroma after surgery and Dr Ben left a voicemail I still have on my phone that basically stated if I didn't run a temperature, most likely I was fine but IF I WAS IN THAT MUCH PAIN, GO TO THE ER. I did. He took a q tip, the wooden side & poked my incision and blood& water flowed. He Rx'd iodoform to pack me with and a home health nurse to come to pack me. I am allergic to shellfish. I would feel dizzy, get headaches, nausea, itching, luckily I was taking Benadryl. I then formed cellulites because I wasn't given antibiotics, so I went to GMC Danville where I was told that I should have been treated properly, especially with an evisceration& seroma. I have started a fundraiser because the after effects of my surgery killed me. I have had 3 more surgeries to remove scar tissue all caused from surgery #1. My last surgery through GMC Danville I was told I am NEVER to have open abdominal surgery again. I am now on Lupron shots every 3 mos. Premarin, Norethindrone, all to protect me from more scar tissue, cysts, etc. My reproduction system is turned off. I have PTSD, Fibromyalgia, chronic depression and scar tissue that swallows my fallopian tubes so I, myself, have to have IVF. I would get better psychosomatically, if I could prove that I am a woman. That I can be whole, despite what happened. (Oh, my 2 HUGE manilla folders, charts disappeared for the 2 years and are most likely confiscated by now, but I know important stuff like I am telling you was never documented) My only option is IVF. However I can't get a regular job anymore. I will be in such agony that I would constantly have to call out. Fibromyalgia is a disease that the evisceration was the catalyst to. Thanks to the hands of a doctor who I trusted with my life. Then another who I am aware that he dislikes patients w/medicaid. Little does he know, we pay for that medicaid. $45/mo.
The $ raised from the fund raiser doesn't necessarily go to me, but 3 couples I know who already have procedures planned in NJ. I put myself last because though I know my uterus was scoped in August & was said to be perfect, beautiful and ready to take embryos, I wanted to help others first. Please read the stories "pay it forward fertility fund" at "go fund me". Or look up Tumblr under "payitforwardivf". I am not asking for anything but recognition. This fund raiser is something I started myself, even being depressed and defective and hopeless, I know there are other couples who cry every month like I do. I tried to commit suicide several times. I reach my arm out to others first. However, infertility is taboo, blind, silent and everyone has advice to give that only hurts instead of helps. So, please, share my story with the world who feel alone. Because I am in their shoes. I still wish I died that day. I would rather be in a grave than living this hell.

Submitted April 24, 2015

I absolutely love dr Montgomery. He delivered 2 of my children. Great guy very down to earth. Bloomsburg hospital was great until Geisinger bought it.

Submitted April 15, 2015

Dr Montgomery was my Dr with all 3 of my kids he is amazing I would never see anyone else and bloom was a great place until GMC took it over

Submitted Dec. 13, 2014

I will never go to Ben Montgomery ever again. I spent my entire pregnancy with another doctor who was on vacation when I delivered so Montgomery was my delivering doctor. Number one: his ego is incredibly ridiculous. Number two: he looked bored throughout the entire delivery. Number three: he left within ten minutes of sewing up my outer tear. From there on, I bled out for three hours until an on call OB/GYN found another tear an spent an hour sewing me up. I was less than an hour from going I to shock from massive blood loss and was given a transfusion. With my medical details and the fact that it was an augmented labor, a doctor with his credentials should have known better than to leave before assuring that the blessing was within normal limits. I have had medical complications since. Long story short, I would never recommend him to anyone.

Submitted July 24, 2013

I think Dr. Montgomery is one of the best ob/gyn doctors available today...I am from Hazleton, and I have had many gynecologists...I had a lot of problems..and he is the only one that had decided to do a biopsy...the others that I have had never even mentioned this...so if it wasn't for him I would have most likely had cancer...because the biopsy showed precancerous cells which would have eventually led to cancer without treatment...so to me he is the absolute best..I just received something in the mail that he is leaving this practice as of April 1, 2013..so I called and asked where he was going, because I really don't want to go to another gynecologist...and he is going to the Berwick Hospital..I know that is where I will be going now ..I really don't trust any other doctor but him!

Submitted Jan. 25, 2013

I also absolutely love Dr. Montgomery from Bloomsburg Hospital. Dr. Montgomery is the best doctor in the ob gyn field. I had two kids under the care of him that were high risk and he watched over my one pregnancy 2 times a week told me everything i needed to do to to care for my unborn kids. I am seeing him for my third baby and am said to hear he is leaving the Bloomsburg Hospital.

Submitted Jan. 16, 2013

I absolutely love Dr. Montgomery and his staff before Geisinger took over the Bloomsburg Hospital. Dr. Montgomery always answered my concerns and gave me great advice!

Submitted Jan. 15, 2013

Dr. Montgomery maintained a consistent behavior of unresponsiveness and genuine disregard toward my concerns. Exceptional ability to dismiss my requests for further explanation. Dr. Montgomery's staff displayed uncanny incompetence.

Submitted Oct. 2, 2012