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