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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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Infertility Center of St. Louis: Dr. Sherman Silber’s Academic & Clinical Breakthroughs

In this informational video, Dr. Sherman Silber—director of the Infertility Center of St. Louis—highlights the clinic’s parallel identities as both a personalized patient-care facility and a powerhouse academic “think tank.” He opens by displaying 11 authoritative books his team has published, translated into German, Spanish, Russian and Chinese—each a best-seller in its market. Silber recalls that his first lay title, How to Get Pregnant (1979), used an eye-catching “how-to” name yet delivered rigorous science in plain language. The book sold more than 400,000 copies and reached The New York Times best-seller list, later spawning updated editions that chronicled the rise of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and, eventually, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)—a technique Silber helped introduce to the United States, solving most forms of male-factor infertility.

He then flips through early British editions on male reproduction, a high-demand Spanish version on andrology, and the clinic’s definitive guide to modern contraception for women who wish to avoid pregnancy. Turning to professional audiences, Silber outlines landmark textbooks: Fundamentals of Male Infertility (a current reference for physicians), an influential manual on transurethral prostatectomy, and two expansive microsurgery volumes—one covering every surgical specialty, the other focused solely on reproductive tract repair and restoration of fertility.

Beyond books, the center boasts more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers, cementing its status as a leading academic institution despite its private structure. Silber closes by reminding viewers that while the clinic is devoted to compassionate, individualized treatment, its innovations—microsurgical vasectomy and tubal reversals, IVF advances, ICSI and more—stem from relentless research and global knowledge-sharing. The message is clear: cutting-edge science and patient-centered care coexist under one roof in St. Louis.