What can you do when your IVF doctor does not agree with you ?

Infertility presents a number of unusual challenges .  It is caused by a medical problem -  for example, blocked fallopian tubes,  or a low sperm count - and this means we can offer medical treatment for it, but the truth is that childlessness is a social label. This is why treatment for infertility is elective - and patients have to decide for themselves if they want to do IVF or not. This is why there really is no right answer or wrong answer as to what kind of treatment IVF patients should be taking. For example, the medical treatment which would give the highest chances of success for an older woman with poor ovarian reserve (a reduced AMH level and a low antral follicle count ) would be to do donor egg IVF.  In all other areas of medicine, the doctor would advice her to do the treatment which maximises the chances of a good outcome. However, if she wants to try IVF with her own eggs, how can you refuse her this option ?  As a doctor you know that her chances of getting pregnant with her own eggs are extremely poor , but if she still insists that she wants to use her own eggs , you have to respect her personal choices. You know there's a high probability that both the quantity and the quality of her eggs will be  poor, so you try to explain to her that her chances of having live birth chances are low, but she is still the final decision maker, since it's her baby. She is using you to provide her with technical assistance , and wants...
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