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Infertile patients cannot afford to wait for treatment while their eggs get older.

Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Center of St. Louis, is offering video consultations for patients who need to plan now for their treatment while stay-at-home orders are in place. He is talking to and evaluating patients in their home to comply with social distancing measures.

Dr. Silber is discovering that patients actually prefer this method of telemedicine consultation over the conventional office visit. Patients have conveyed that “it is so much more convenient and less stressful” to have a telemedicine personal consultation than to take a day off from work to travel to the doctor’s office and sit with other nervous patients in the waiting room.

The COVID-19 pandemic is thus changing much of the way we will do things in the future, and for the better. “Our patients are surprisingly much happier with this approach. Of course, at some point we need to perform hands on treatment. But with this new manner of seeing patients, we can come to the right diagnosis and treatment plan for most patients more efficiently, quickly, and painlessly, with no loss of personal one-on-one communication.” This is a very welcome new era of telemedicine that has been forced on us by the current difficult times.

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Africa 2025 – Serengeti Great Migration: Cheetahs, Elephants, Lions & the Mara River Crossing

This Serengeti wildlife narrative follows the rhythms of drought, migration, predation, and family life across Tanzania’s southeast plains and the Mara River in the northwest. It opens with three cheetahs feeding on a baby Thomson’s gazelle (“Tommy”) after scanning unsuccessfully for an easier wildebeest calf among the safety of the massive migrating herd. Their struggle highlights a core theme of the film: abundance can protect prey, while drought and shifting rain patterns force predators and grazers alike into changing strategies.

In the dry southeastern Serengeti, a lone watering hole draws animals from hundreds of miles around, creating extraordinary close-range encounters. Elephants don’t just drink—they bathe, cool off, and playfully splash one another and even the photographers. The narration explains elephant society: females lead, adolescent males are merely tolerated, and adult bulls must live more solitary lives, competing for mating rights. Elsewhere, a hovering bird of prey plucks insects from bark with remarkable control, a leopard stays treed while packs of feared hyenas patrol below, and Cape buffalo are described as deadly mainly to hunters who threaten them.

The tone shifts often from drama to serenity. Giraffe families glide through the bush like moving sculpture, with 200-pound calves prancing under close maternal watch. At night, elephants reveal their secret to longevity—constant walking and eating—while the equatorial sunset vanishes quickly into darkness, replaced by active midnight grazing from impala, wildebeest, and gazelles.

The Great Migration provides the grand climax: 1.5 million wildebeest and a million zebras following predictable rains toward greener grazing, only to face the crocodile-filled Mara River. The film also pauses for a striking mating explanation: lions copulate repeatedly for a week, each act lasting only seconds, because the male’s sperm count is unexpectedly low. On the final night by the Mara, elephants pass the camp as if offering a farewell, closing the journey with quiet emotional weight.