February 4, 2012

Case of the month Aug/Sep '08: Episode #9

Click here for episode 1 When patients make it to 12 or 13 weeks gestation, they graduate. We have a small ceremony and give them gifts. They celebrate freedom from taking their progesterone shots. We make a DVD of their baby doing back flips in their final first trimester ultrasound so they can watch it [...]

Case of the month Aug/Sep '08: Episode #8

Click here for episode 1 Imagine that four times in your life, you have been pregnant and imagine that all four times have ended in miscarriage. It’s pretty understandable that now, in your fifth pregnancy, every twinge of abdominal pain can make your heart race with panic. Every time you use the restroom, you dread [...]

Fertility waterfall? Yeah, right

Despite Nicole Kidman’s assertion that swimming in the waterfalls near Kununurra, Australia helped her fertility, I would not recommend making the trip all the way out there. Now if you happened to already live nearby, then it might be worth a try.

Case of the month Aug/Sep '08: Episode #7

Click here for episode 1 Irene had started her injections on day 3 of her cycle. After five days of injections, it brought us to day 8 and she was here for her ultrasound. This is what we saw: RIGHT OVARY: (14×13) (15×14) (13×13) LEFT OVARY: (16×14) Lining = 8mm Triple Layer This was a [...]

Politicians vilifying the wealthy

I’ve always taken issue with the lie that the poor or middle class pay more taxes than the wealthy. This article summarizes it nicely. Money is just a way for society to keep tabs on how much people are working to contribute to the world. In general, the people with the money are the ones [...]

An investment that doesn't lose value

Yesterday, I saw a couple who were back for a third baby. Four years ago, they had done their first cycle of IVF and wound up with twins. After delivering a boy and a girl and enduring sleepless nights feeding them and changing diapers, they apparently did not feel they had suffered enough, so they [...]

Case of the month Aug/Sep '08: Episode #6

Click here for episode 1 Six months had passed since Irene’s positive LAC (Lupus Anti Coagulant) test. The initial relief and excitement she had felt had gone away and she came in to discuss her options. After all, she had suffered four miscarriages, but then finally learned a reason for the miscarriages. We were ready [...]

The doctor-lawyer double standard

Compared to doctors, lawyers donate 7.5 times as much to politicians in order to extract political favors. It’s no wonder the rules of the game in this country are stacked way in favor of lawyers. The next time you need a doctor or lawyer, you can judge for yourself if this difference is fair and [...]

Midnight egg retrieval

During my training, when I was a resident in OB/Gyn, before I subspecialized in REI, it was pretty much the norm for me to spend a few days per week at the hospital during 1 AM, delivering babies and handling the OB/Gyn cases that came through the ER. Ever since I shifted to doing infertility [...]