Greetings from the mile high city where I have yet to sleep past 5 am since I remain on East Coast time. All the zombies have left town and only the attendees of the ASRM remain...some of whom do ressemble zombies although better dressed. Yesterday I attended a course on the role of mental health professionals in IVF and in particular in 3 rd party reproduction. Well it was certainly an eye-opener. Although I have had some unusual requests over the years (most commonly a woman who wants to use her adult daughter with husband #1 to be an egg donor...
lundi 25 octobre 2010
dimanche 24 octobre 2010
Yesterday at the Post Graduate Course that I attended there was a great deal of discussion about ovarian reserve testing (ORT) and what it really means. As I have indicated in several past blogs ORT predicts response to fertility drugs and age predicts egg quality. So ORT does not indicate if a woman has any good eggs left...the only proof of a good egg is of course the delivery of a healthy baby. The overall consensus was that ultrasound and antimullerian...
samedi 23 octobre 2010
Hello from Denver where the annual meeting of the ASRM is being held. American Society for Reproductive Medicine that it. Well it seems that this is the meeting where I will be unable to keep my big mouth shut. Yesterday at the Practice Retreat for the members of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinologists I spoke my piece about practice size. As a 3rd generation physician I feel strongly that the patient-doctor relationship must be at the center of all care. So that is why we try to do as many sonograms as possible on our own patients and ditto...
mardi 19 octobre 2010
Clearly there was a lot of interest about IVF following the exciting announcement that Dr. Robert Edwards had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I was asked to speak about IVF on the Midday Show on the local NBC station here in Washington. I have been on TV a couple of times and I usually find it very painful to watch but this time I actually was pretty satisfied with how things went. The worst experience I had was on CNN when I was on a panel with Pete Singer and Arthur Caplan. Those two went after each other with a vengeance and I was left just sitting...
lundi 4 octobre 2010
Earlier this week the Nobel Prize Committee announced that Robert Edwards had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in recognition of the groundbreaking work on IVF that led to the birth of Louise Brown in 1978. It is hard to remember a time when IVF was not part of our fertility treatment options and yet just 3 decades ago IVF was more science fiction than science fact.Drs. Steptoe and Edwards ushered in a new era in reproductive medicine with...
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