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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP of this thread here. I have now met with GW/Frankfurter and CCRM/Payson and really liked both of them. It's rare to find doctors that really sit and listen. Now I have to choose one, and I see pros and cons to each. What did other posters here choose and why?[/quote]

Hi OP, I've been following your posts this summer--I felt like I could relate to much of your story (although I'm 38), as I had 2 chemical pregnancies and a miscarriage at 7 weeks within an 8 month span as we've been TTC conceive our first. I'm glad you had a good experience with both your consults. I haven't done IVF and don't know anything about CCRM, but I was a patient at GW earlier this year before switching to Dominion this summer. I never met Dr. F while I was at GW, so also can't chime in about him. But if you are equally confident in both doctors and their approaches (the most important thing!), then here are a few other details you might want to consider as you make your decision. These are all things that I noticed were different between my experiences at two clinics that I think factored into my mental well-being:

-How well each clinic's morning monitoring hours work for your daily life, traffic/how far you will have to travel to each clinic, and ease and cost of parking (if you're driving).

-Your experiences so far with the nurses and other staff you've interacted with, including if they seem to be efficient (I had a consult at a 3rd clinic in the area as I was deciding where to go after leaving GW, and had to call the front desk of that 3rd clinic 3 times after scheduling my appointment just to get them to send me the new patient paperwork...I felt like that didn't bode well, as the last thing any of us need is to spend our time repeatedly chasing down people to get you what you need.)

-Clinics vary in their operations on who will do your procedures. At GW, whichever RE is 'on call' that week will do your procedure (retrievals, transfers, biopsy, saline sonogram, etc), while some clinics schedule you with your primary RE to do them if they fall on a day your RE is in the office. Hard to say how this is handled at CCRM since they are newer and have half the number of REs that GW has. This point doesn't matter to some people, but for other people it's important to them to have their own doctor as much as possible throughout the process.

Best of luck to you OP![/quote]

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