Anonymous wrote:Honestly it is not going to matter much how warm and fuzzy your doctor is. You will talk to your nurse and whatever doctor is on the schedule for your procedure or monitoring appointment. I would just go with the person with the most experience who I think is Widra. I have a daughter from IVF with him as my doctor a few years ago and am trying for another and he has no clue who I am.

I've had him this year. While he may have most experience, he was unwilling to switch protocols after the first attempt failed. I found that to be ... lazy doctoring for the lack of better expression. He is very busy, and really is not super focused on each individual case.

Honestly it is not going to matter much how warm and fuzzy your doctor is. You will talk to your nurse and whatever doctor is on the schedule for your procedure or monitoring appointment. I would just go with the person with the most experience who I think is Widra. I have a daughter from IVF with him as my doctor a few years ago and am trying for another and he has no clue who I am.

I worked with/met a range (10+) of doctors in the practice. Eric Levens in Annandale is probably the most engaged with patients and warm of any I met. If that's a very important factor to you, I'd take the time to go meet with him for the consult. In the end, you end up doing monitoring & even the retrievals and transfers with different doctors who are on duty at whatever time and place you go to - but your 'primary' person is who you talk to about strategies, decisions and results.

Another vote for Dr. Moon here. She's exceptional in her bedside manner and her clinical skills. You won't regret making an appt with her.

I love Dr Osborn at Sibley location

I wasn't the earlier poster, but I completely agree with the above remarks on Dr. Doyle. Yes, very warm and fuzzy with a great bedside manner, but overinflated the odds of success and did not describe a procedure and we were surprised to learn what had happened after the fact. Also, he claimed all along that he would be doing the procedure and literally the night before substituted himself out for a doctor that we had never met....we didn't like the substitute doctor at all, but were told he was the only one available.
Really would have preferred to have a more ethical physician.

We loved Dr. Doyle. He worked with us and talked things through and we have a beautiful daughter now. We also worked with Dr. Osborne. Also good and personable.

I would anti-recommend Dr. Sagoskin. But, you know what? It's all subjective. But if you meet with a doctor and have a bad feeling, please do switch doctors.

You're probably looking at the dc metro area, but Simon Kipersztok, M.D. did my embryo transfer and I fell in love with him. He's in Waldorf. I have seen dr. Doyle and he was great too.

I am grateful that we met Dr. Bromer we were stubborn and chose donor rout but he gave so much info to us and his facts convinced us to try our own and YAY , twins! I am so grateful I chose him!

If the person who posted about the mistake with Dr. Doyle is reading this thread, will you pease tell us more about what happened? I have an appointment with him and I'd like to evaluate whether I'm concerned about the thing that happened to you re-occurring. Thank you for your help, and I'm sorry that you had a bad experience.

I got to see different doctors during my IVF. I did not think anyone was warm and fuzzy. It did not matter to me as long as they were not rude and answered questions. My RE is Widra. I don't think he is warm and fuzzy but he is an intelligent doc and answers my question. But he is busy and sometimes I have had to deal with others RE's who covered for him when he was away. I heard Sacks at Columbia is warm and fuzzy.

Dr. Saffan is awesome and definitely absent minded professory, but he knows his stuff. Also, our nurse with him is great and she is warm and fuzzy. I care less about warm as I do about knowledgable and trustworthy.