Question of the Day: Diminished Ovarian Reserve

Yesterday I gave Grand Rounds at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA. Fairfax is a very large hospital routinely performing over 10,000 deliveries annually. There are over 100 Ob/Gyn physicians on staff and I have the title of Division Director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. As Division Director, I am responsible for ensuring educational content at the weekly departmental meetings that have an educational purpose. These meetings...

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Looking and Not Seeing

For the past 12 years I have been giving lectures to the students and residents from The George Washington University (and more recently VCU). I usually give my lectures in a room that is located on the campus of Inova Fairfax Hospital and you can usually find me there every week at 7:15 am trying to keep the audience awake, entertained and educated. I usually hook up my MacBook Pro to the LCD projector that I keep in my car. After my lecture last week I noticed an LCD projector that was mounted on the ceiling of the room. Looking around I noted...

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Revisiting the Past

I just returned from Boston where I helped my Dad celebrate his 89th birthday. My Mom is doing amazingly well considering what she has been through this past year in terms of her health.At the party, attended by many cousins that my kids never even knew that I had, my Dad relived his early years growing up in Charlestown, MA and how he went to Tufts and Tufts Medical School. He then was an Intern in Internal Medicine at Bellevue Hospital in NYC....

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