Beyond Second Opinions: Making Choices About Fertility Treatment Review

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(More customer reviews)This book certainly has a lot of information on various treatments (as you would likely find in many other books), but what makes this book unique is its in-depth look into the controversy which surrounds these treatments. The risks are covered in depth, where in most books this is not discussed. The benefits of certain treatments over others is discussed.The author isvery knowledgable and gives an insiders view of the medical factssurrounding fertility treatments.My biggest surprise was how little isreally understood and/or confirmed by the medical establishment.Theresearch is often lacking and the results are anything but conclusive.Irealized by reading this book why our RE (Dr) choose not to give my wifefertility drugs during her IUI treatments.My wife would have preferredanything possible that would potentially improves our changes.It is turethat most Dr's seem to throw "everything they got" at patients,even though doing so can be potentially dangerous.This is really anenderlying theme in this book, in my opinion.Often, the success rates donot correlate and are subject to question themselves.The author, who haspersonal experience as a DES daughter, relates the medical experiments ofthe past to many of the current treatments, which are more experimental innature than we know.In our desparate quest to have children, most doctorsare caving in to the pressure and giving patients drugs and treatmentswhich are not well understood.This was very interesting to read andshould help me and my wife make better choices.Overall, I found this bookto be a fresh look on fertility treatments ... not just the facts, but thewhole story, which is rarely discussed outside the medical community.

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