In March of 2011, after having completed months of research on the subject of infertility, my wife and I contacted your office with eager anticipation of getting through our infertility issues. Our story is one of correcting infertility issues developed by me having gone through a vasectomy.
We were quickly put at ease by the professionalism and knowledge you and your staff had of our situation. We appreciated the fact that you gave us your assessment and recommendations and then gave us time to evaluate those recommendations. Your staff was very helpful in setting up all the arrangements from accommodations to finances.
So, in May of 2011, we scheduled a vasectomy reversal through your office. Again, you and the staff at St. Luke’s were professional and courteous. The procedure went well and we went home believing we had made the right decision in choosing you to help us. The recovery at home went very well and I had very little discomfort. Again, I thank you and your staff for all the help even after the surgery. When we had questions, your staff was always helpful.
So, it is with great honor and pleasure that my we inform you and your staff that on December 17, 2013 at 11:50 pm our son was born. Ryker Isaac Monroe was a happy, healthy 9lbs 6oz at birth and is now growing and smiling daily.
Thank you all very much & God Bless
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.

