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  It's often very hard for an IVF patient to judge the technical competence of her IVF doctor, which is why they are forced to use surrogate markers - for example, the doctor's bedside manner; or what they've read about the doctor in a newspaper article ; or perh...

IVF treatment is expensive, which is why patients will often doctor-shop, in order to find the clinic which offers the most cost effective treatment option. Sadly, they will often get cheated. This is because clinics will often hide a lot of their treatment cost...

  Mumbai is the medical capital of India, and Mumbai IVF clinics attract patients from all over the world, because we offer state-of-the-art medical technology at affordable prices. Good IVF clinics routinely use the newest IVF techniques, such as blastocyst ( D...

Every patient wants to go to the best IVF center - after all, IVF is an expensive treatment, so you want to choose the IVF center with the highest success rate, to maximise your chances of getting pregnant quickly. Not all IVF centers are created equal, and ther...

My husband and I went to a renowned mother-child hospital in the suburbs of Mumbai to seek fertility treatment since we had an issue of male factor infertility (low sperm count and morphology). As per the doctor's advice (which matched what we had read ourselves), w...

Stress does not cause infertility - it's the infertility which causes the stress. However, blaming patients by telling them that their infertility is because they are so stressed out is a great way of shifting the blame onto them , and this just makes a bad pr...

This is something we see all the time, and often this is labeled as “ empirical therapy “ , and is justified based on the fact that "I've tried it with my patients and it's worked." There are two reasons why doctors get fooled. The first is the placeb...

This is not a diagnosis which is found in medical textbooks, but the reality is that in today's day and age, where men and women live in metropolises and pursue high flying careers, they are not able to spend enough time together – and not having enough sex...