Hope all is well! I’m enclosing pictures of Gracie for you to add to your collection. She just turned 3. She is everything we wanted and then some. She is very smart for her age. She just started preschool this fall. She is also speaking some Spanish. She carries on conversations like a 5 or 6 year old. She is always very curious, which also gets her in trouble occasionally.
Thank you so much for everything you’ve done. You couldn’t have went into a better career that you’re in. You have the utmost compassion for what you do and that makes all the difference in success.
My fertility journey is finished. I pray for all the other longing couples! Thank you for helping them.
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.

