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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]


