Should I ask my Doctor...or simply Trust ?
Many a times one would be confronted with this question nagging in the back of mind. I say why cant they go hand in hand...? You ask your doctor and the you trust them doubly. When things do not go as planned, the patient would be better prepared and the doctor would not have to face the mistrust which comes in at this conjuncture. Because our culture teaches us to regard the doctor as 'healer', someone at a pedestral, who is the lifesaver and perhaps a 'common being' shouldnt be the one to question that authority, doesnt mean you as a service reciever should not ask.
Many a times in clinical practice I meet patients who have undergone more than 5 or so fertility treatment, even ART procedures, but have no clear understanding of why it was undertaken, what exactly was done, how were the outcomes as per the expectations, even to the limit that whether there were any surplus gametes/embryos frozen for them!
Sometimes, they have no records of what they had undergone in the way of treatment. In this age and day, it surely is a surprising and scary phenomenon in a metropolis especially.
The couple submitting themselves to a fertility treatment in a clinic is the pivot point around which the process of attaining fertility revolves. They have a fundamental right to be told or ask about the treatment, pros, cons and the possible outcomes of it. The miscommunication is perhaps not intentional. The couple hesitates due to the stature of the doctor and the 'pedestral' phenomenon, and the doctor is ofcorce too busy to go into details when not asked.
We shall go into a series of various treatment modalities a couple may go through and try to enlist the essentials of each one.
Starting from the basics, when you have tried for a year actively to concieve and nothing seems to have happened, it's time to think and ask some questions of yoursellf first. Plan a visit to the doctor together and seek answers to your doubts and queries, as well as get the basic tests done.
Many a times in clinical practice I meet patients who have undergone more than 5 or so fertility treatment, even ART procedures, but have no clear understanding of why it was undertaken, what exactly was done, how were the outcomes as per the expectations, even to the limit that whether there were any surplus gametes/embryos frozen for them!
Sometimes, they have no records of what they had undergone in the way of treatment. In this age and day, it surely is a surprising and scary phenomenon in a metropolis especially.
The couple submitting themselves to a fertility treatment in a clinic is the pivot point around which the process of attaining fertility revolves. They have a fundamental right to be told or ask about the treatment, pros, cons and the possible outcomes of it. The miscommunication is perhaps not intentional. The couple hesitates due to the stature of the doctor and the 'pedestral' phenomenon, and the doctor is ofcorce too busy to go into details when not asked.
We shall go into a series of various treatment modalities a couple may go through and try to enlist the essentials of each one.
Starting from the basics, when you have tried for a year actively to concieve and nothing seems to have happened, it's time to think and ask some questions of yoursellf first. Plan a visit to the doctor together and seek answers to your doubts and queries, as well as get the basic tests done.
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