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My husband Kenneth had a vasectomy in 2003, long before we met. Then I came along, and wanted a child of my own. We really didn’t think that it would be possible to have it reversed with a good outcome. Kenneth saw a couple different local doctors, but they were not optimistic that a vasectomy reversal would work, due to how long it had been at that point. We then began to check into IVF as we felt that was our only option., but became discourage after finding out the cost vs. the percentage rate that it would be successful, so we kind of gave up for a bit. We were then referred to Dr. Silber. He was optimistic, and we were able to schedule his surgery pretty soon after the initial phone consultation. Kenneth had his surgery on May 9, 2016….. almost exactly one year later, I was pregnant! We had a healthy baby boy born on February 9, 2018. All thanks to Dr. Silber- we wouldn’t have this wonderful, precious little boy without his expertise!!!
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.
