One would expect that IVF clinics would be experts at testing sperm and would give reliable semen analysis reports, and this is something that patients and doctors rightly take for granted. But the reality is that IVF clinics deliberately misreport the semen analysis,...

In 1993, a couple from Chennai, Balagopal and Latika, visited a clinic in Mumbai. Balagopal had a zero sperm count and had tried homeopathy and Ayurveda, but their condition persisted. The couple flew to Mumbai to see Dr. Aniruddha, who examined Balagopal. He had a te...

Many IVF patients are extremely unhappy with the quality of care they receive during their IVF cycle because they were promised one thing when they signed up and paid the fees during the first consultation, but the reality was very different! They never get to see th...

I provide a free second opinion for patients who have failed IVF cycles in other clinics, and one of the things I ask them is to share photographs of their embryos. However, many doctors get upset and agitated when patients demand photos of their embryos. Here is w...

Sometimes IVF cycles get canceled because the man cannot produce a semen sample on demand at the time of the egg collection. This is often because he's very stressed out, and obviously masturbating in a hospital room or sometimes a hospital bathroom is not much fun, w...

We do only single embryo transfers ( SET) . We do only Day 5 ( blastocyst) transfers – even for poor ovarian responders. We share embryo photos routinely and proactively with all patients. This documentation gives them priceless peace of mind they have received t...

When we tell patients to become IVF experts, we aren’t telling them to learn embryology – you can’t do IVF in your own bedroom. What we mean is that you need to know enough about IVF to be able to differentiate between a good IVF doctor and a bad IVF doctor. A well-i...

Many IVF patients do their first IVF treatment cycle with lots of hopes. Especially during the first consultation, the doctor is very hopeful and optimistic, because he is in sell mode. You get to talk to the senior brand name doctor who tom-toms their high success ra...

Most IVF doctors in India are quite paternalistic, and they get put off when patients ask questions. They feel that patients are challenging their authority and that the job of a patient is to leave everything in the doctor's hands because the doctor is an expert medi...

Patients often don't understand why we insist that they take the time and trouble to educate themselves about the IVF process. Their general attitude is - We're just patients. As laymen, what do we understand about medical technical niceties? And after all, aren't we...