"Try to avoid this facility, if you can. The reason I gave them a poor rating has nothing to do with skills, equipment or even the result of it. It has everything to do with the "pay us and I don't care" attitude. Everyone agrees that IVF is a stressful process: financially, physically, and psychologically. This center exemplifies the word of "pipelining" in medical domain - they want to maximize the efficiency (therefore) profitability, and minimize the time that a doctor/nurse spent on you. Once you get enrolled and money paid - the IVF nurse assigned to you give you schedule sheet - then everything is communicated through voice box, even the final results, success or failure - doesn't matter, no explanation whatsoever from NFC. You want to have a brief call with Doctor? sure, here is the consulting rate. You want to talk to the nurse? oh, you didn't get enrolled in the "flat rate", here is the bill. The chance is high that during a whole cycle (~3 month) you will only get to see the doctor you so carefully choosing just ONCE - the first time. So, the advice here is - it doesn't matter which one to pick. I honestly don't know how Dr. Hill get the words of "popular" or "caring" ... it sounds to me the utter ridicule: popular by being out of sight? Knowing sometimes, the choice is limited, all I can say is, good luck."
So what happened at the end? Where you or your partner able to get pregnant? Did you go somewhere else?
ReplyDeleteWe're not pregnant yet-- egg transfer yesterday, first pregnancy test on August 3rd. I will say, though, that I've found NFC to be very pleasant and efficient. We paid the flat rate, so I don't know anything about fees to talk to nurses, but we certainly did pay for a lot of other stuff. And the doctors are indeed phantoms-- you get five minutes, tops, and they probably couldn't tell you apart for $100-- but the nurses are caring and responsive.
DeleteEgg transfer...does this mean one of you transferred the egg to the other?
ReplyDeleteWhoops, no, I must have meant embryo transfer. It was Heather's own fertilized egg, back into her sweet little oven :)
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