Stim...retrieve...transfer....fail....repeat. NOT the Dominion Fertility approach to IVF.

Readers of this blog know that I have wide ranging taste in movies. On the one hand I loved Frozen and have been known to sing along with Broadway show tunes (much to the chagrin of my wife and kids). On the other hand, I am a lover of Sci Fi and zombie movies who surfs through the movie channels every night looking for giant monsters or giant robots or giant monsters fighting giant robots (Pacific Rim anyone?). In particular, I love movies that...

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Avoid getting stung...advice from Dr G at Dominion Fertility

No good deed goes unpunished. I spend a fair amount of time traveling between our Fair Oaks and Arlington offices in order to do my best to do all the egg collections and embryo transfers on my own patients. So when my wife called to say that there was a lot of unanticipated activity in our neighbors backyard that seemed to involve significant tree work I thought that it would be helpful for me to pop in on my way back to Arlington for a quick look....

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Roller Coasters, Car Keys and the Use of the Matcher System at Dominion Fertility.

I am really not a roller coaster aficionado. In fact, I sometimes have a tough time with elevators that drop too fast....So when I recently found myself in line for Expedition Everest at Animal Kingdom in Disney World, I wasn't too thrilled. But I hung in there and through the magic of SmartPass I was able to negotiate the line without enough time to change my mind. I survived. Barely. Needless to say, I was not rushing over to one of the vendors...

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Salon.com got it right. DrG at Dominion Fertility agrees.

Over a decade ago I received an odd email from the folks at Salon.com. They had seen my book: Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility: Handbook for Clinicians and were hoping that I would serve as the medical professional on a team of editors that was working on a book that Salon.com would publish. Seemed like a chance to make sure that the public got appropriate medical advice in terms of reproductive health so I tentatively agreed. "Just send me...

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Managing DOR at Dominion Fertility

Here in Washington DC we love acronyms. The entire government is one big acronym....DHS, HHS, DOJ, IRS, etc, etc.In medicine we are similarly guilty of using incomprehensible terminology. We say "ick-see" (ICSI) but spell out IVF. We throw around terms like IUI, DI, AI without a second thought.Last week during a consult a patient confided in me that she had "door." I didn't want to sound like a dolt so I just rolled with it until she asked me again...

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Happy Valentine's Day from Dominion Fertility

DrG wishing you all an early Happy Valentine's Day just in case I don't make it home in one piece given the "wicked" (Bostonian for very impressive) storm that blew through here last night and today....My parents were married for 67 years. That is a very impressive accomplishment. Somehow they made it work although there was certainly a fair amount of yelling at times... How can you explain how to stay together for such a long time? In one sense...

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Happy (Belated) New Year from Dominion Fertility!

It has been a very busy couple of months here at Dominion Fertility but I am slowly digging out from a number of time consuming projects ranging from writing a couple of research papers to updating all of our consent forms and everything in between. One of my favorite yearly holiday projects is trying to reply to all the Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Festivus/New Year's cards that I receive here at Dominion. Unfortunately, after 18 years in practice...

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Double Trouble at Dominion Fertility

Hey, DrG here in the frozen wasteland of our Nation's Capitol. Funny that when the weather turns nasty here in the Metro DC area the government shuts down, the schools close, the supermarkets run out of toilet paper and milk...but our patients make it to the office without any problem whatsoever....This past week has been a week of identical twins for me....officially termed monozygotic twins (scientific talk meaning one egg/embryo). The best thing...

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True Love Can Thaw a Frozen Heart (? and egg)....

I am a wuss. Seriously. My kids totally make fun of my sentimental nature. Years ago we had a pet hedgehog named Pocus. I had found Pocus wandering along our street in Long Island (long story) and adopted her. She moved with us to Maryland in 1999 and actually attended the closing on our house (a first at the Title Company). Pocus passed over the Rainbow Bridge a couple of years later and we buried her under a tree in our yard. At her memorial service...

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Over the Edge....Taking it one step at a time.

I am not a very good skier. When renting skis I am never tempted to describe myself as a Type III skier. I am more comfortable cruising along on greens and blues rather than attacking black diamonds. Part of this could relate to my memory of fracturing my collar bone while on a college ski trip to Mount Snow in Vermont. Sadly enough, that injury occurred on the first day of skiing and while on a trip that I had worked hard to organize. Oh well. Meconium...

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