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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the poster who posted about being fed up with SGF and wanting to switch to GW. Please hear me and please tell me if I am being reasonable with my vent.
I absolutely hate their monitoring system whereby you get monitored by a different person each time who give you totally different observations, based mostly on their own skill at ultrasound monitoring.

1st monitoring appt - 7 follicles

2nd monitoring appt - 9 follicles

3rd monitoring appt - 7 follicles (where did the other 2 go??)

4th monitoring appt - 11 follicles (have the missing 2 reappeared and 2 new appeared (of a good size)??)

I feel this is bad work because they apparently base retrievals on what ultrasound technicians previously observed. Since I do not have a big cohort of follicles I believe they should be more accurate and precise with measuring. It's not like I have millions to throw at them for sloppy work.

Am I mistaken? Do I expect a "lot" Is it like this at other places too? I realize that hormones make a bit nervous, but in my book being sloppy is where I draw a line and different results at each appointment infuriate me.

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At GW, only doctors do the monitoring.  But you potentially have different doctors on different days.  For example, the "on-call" doctor rotates on a Thursday-Thursday schedule. There are four doctors, so you will see one of them. All of the doctors discuss every IVF case once a week, so you're getting the brains of four doctors instead of one.

FWIW (and I love GW) the above would not be enough in and of itself to drive me away from a clinic. I think follicle measuring is not 100% exact science.  But I did really appreciate that at GW it was always doctors who did the monitoring and that it seemed to be pretty precise and involved. [/quote]

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