How does a Doctor deal with a Medical Error?
When the patient's course takes a downhill turn, family members will often suspect that the doctor made an error. This causes doctors to become defensive, and this widens the rift between the doctor and patient even more. Dr Pandya describes what doctors need to to do...
Improving Doctor Patient Trust
It’s common for infertile women to have pelvic pain. Many women in the reproductive age group complain of pain in the pelvis area. In some cases, this pain is just very generic and is called dysmenorrheal. However, in some cases, this pain is caused by endometriosis....
Intrauterine insemination is an extremely common infertility treatment that is also fairly inexpensive. Since not much of technical expertise is required for it, most gynecologists offer IUI as the first treatment option for patients who have been identified to be inf...
Most infertile couples turn to IVF as their last shot at having a baby of their own. In most instances they have tried everything in the book and outside it, to get pregnant and have failed. When they choose to do IVF, they put all their expectations and hopes into i...
Getting a sperm analysis test is important. In case the report comes back normal, it’s very reassuring for the patient; this test doesn’t have to be repeated either. If the analysis shows up as normal, the doctors won’t really have to examine the man at all as that ch...
Anovulation (no ovulation) is one of the common reasons of infertility. A number of women are confused about irregular periods. The thing to keep in view here is that having regular periods in itself doesn’t really ensure successful conception. It’s very common for in...
In the course of your IVF treatment cycle, once your embryos have been transferred to the uterus, there is a waiting period of two weeks; its only after these 2 weeks that you will be able to find out whether you are pregnant or not. Having to wait for 2 whole weeks...
Percutaneous epididymal sperm extraction (PESA) is the best treatment option for a man who has obstructive azoospermia (zero sperm count because of a block in the reproductive tract). Azoospermia, as the name suggests, is a condition in which there are no sperm in th...