How IVF clinics take patients for a ride

It breaks my heart when I see how IVF clinics cheat their patients.  Patients do IVF treatment with a lot of expectations .  However, because patients are not well informed , it's very easy for unscrupulous IVF doctors to fool them.Many clinics paint a rosy picture to attract patients. At the time of the first consultation, the “brand name doctor” is very sweet and obliging. When they are trying to “sell” their services to the patient, they inflate their success rates,  and talk about pregnancy rates of “ between 40% to 50% “ . They have no actual proof of this – and without independent auditing, it’s very easy to manipulate statistics by cherry picking patients and selecting a convenient numerator and denominator.A lot of IVF clinics are often unscrupulous about the advise they offer to their patients . Thus, when an IVF cycle fails ( sometimes because of poor IVF lab conditions), the doctor will “blame” poor quality eggs for the failure, and advise that the patient use donor eggs to improve her chances of success.Often, they overpromise success at the time of the embryo transfer, by saying that the embryos are perfect Grade A embryos ( without ever providing a photo for actual documentation). Then when the cycle fails, they tell the patient that her uterus is “rejecting” the embryo and that she needs surrogacy to “treat” her implantation failure. Some even blame the patient for the failure, by saying that she did not rest properly,...
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