On the day I married Kent, we vowed to encourage and inspire each other; to laugh with each other, to lift each other up when we were down and to love each other unconditionally on this adventure. Kent has shown me what a true partnershipc an be; I cannot imagine a better husband out there for me. I knew from the beginning that he would be an excellent father because he is kind and caring, incredibly loyal and so silly at all the right times. When the realization came that we would need help to become a family, there was no question that we would turn to Dr. Silber. I am here to be the wife to my husband and the teacher to my students because of him. My parents’ story, along with Kent and I, has come full circle with Dr.Silber. The entire team at Dr. Silber’s office has made a difficult journey easier with all of their patience and care. Kent and I are thankful to Dr. Silber for assisting in our journey.
Karen and Kent Toyota
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.

