I often see patients who've been to poor quality IVF clinics. Now I can understand that they may go to a bad clinic for their first cycle because they don't know any better, but by the time they've done a second and third cycle they should be able to start realizing tha......

  This list is from the ABIM Foundation, USA. http://www.choosingwisely.org/patient-resources/fertility-tests/   If you and your partner have not been able to have a baby, talk to your gynecologist or a fertility specialist. Usually both you and your partner will......

It breaks my heart when I see how IVF clinics cheat their patients.  Patients do IVF treatment with a lot of expectations .  However, because patients are not well informed , it's very easy for unscrupulous IVF doctors to fool them.Many clinics paint a rosy picture to a......

Because of the recent technological advances in modern medicine, every doctor seems to have become a superspecialist. They have a lot of expertise in their particular domain, but they often don't have a holistic picture of the entire patient. While they know a lot......

Most women know that their fertility declines as they get older because they run out of eggs. It's true that life is unfair - while men continue producing sperm all their life,  women are born with whatever eggs they're ever going to have, which means they never produc......

Failing an IVF cycle can be heartbreaking, and it can be difficult for the doctor to advise the patient what to do next. This is true when the cycle has gone very well; and even when it hasn't .Let's take the example of a patient with a poor ovarian response. You kn......

When I see patients who have failed an IVF cycle, I ask them basic questions such as, "How many eggs did you grow?" and " What was your embryo quality". The standard response is, "Our doctor didn't tell us anything." Interestingly, many patients believe that doctors a......

There seems to be a major difference in the way the younger generation has looked upon the move by the government to demonetize high currency notes. Many older people are quite resentful and angry about this sudden and unexpected turn of events - especially the ones w......

It's now been a week since the Prime Minister demonetized the Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes and it's time to reassess the situation. I for one have been very impressed by his ability to pull off a pretty dramatic move but lots of my friends have completely different opinion......