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Dr. Paul Lin of Seattle Reproductive Medicine discusses what requirements and key things someone should look for when assessing a fertility clinic. He also offers tips on how to identify a clinic\u2019s specialties, what factors to consider before and during the first visit, and how to ensure you\u2019re getting the best treatment.\r\n\r\n<strong>Guest:<\/strong> Dr. Paul Lin, Seattle Reproductive Medicine\r\n<strong>Host:<\/strong> Selena Campbell, Progyny\r\nFor more information, visit\u00a0Progyny\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/progyny.com\/education\/podcast\/\">Podcast page<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Progyny\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/progyny.com\/education\/\">Education page<\/a>\u00a0for more resources.\r\nBe sure to follow us on Instagram,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thisisinfertilitypodcast\/\">@ThisisInfertilityPodcast<\/a>\u00a0and use the\u00a0#ThisisInfertility.\r\nHave a question, comment, or want to share your story? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"mresourcesailto:thisisinfertility@progyny.com\">thisisinfertility@progyny.com<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Here are some highlights from this episode:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Is Google the Best Place to Start Looking?<\/strong><\/span>\r\n02:42 \u2013 03:46\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Dr. Paul Lin:<\/strong> I think as a patient seeking care if you're struggling to get pregnant,\r\nGoogle is the place that most people go to first. I would suggest that people go to\r\nthe sart.org website. This is a conglomeration of reproductive fertility clinics who\r\nhave been vetted very highly and they abide by certain standards of how a fertility\r\nclinic operates and takes care of their patients. We're a self-regulated society that\r\nmyself and peers each regulate the best quality practices that are out there. We\r\ndevelop advertising rules, we develop validation rules, we develop best practice\r\nrules for each other to use so that in the end, and we take the best care of patients.<\/p>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Not Every Patient is the Same.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n05:10 \u2013 06:07\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Dr. Paul Lin:<\/strong> Not every patient that we see is treated the same way. Dr. X versus\r\nDr. Y may take a certain patient with the same parameters, the same issues, and\r\ntreat them very differently. When you're trying to compare head-to-head, age\r\nparameters is the most common parameter that we use. In terms of success rates,\r\na 35-year-old woman with diminished ovarian reserve with an elevated FSH of some\r\nkind, myself versus my colleague across the street, we\u2019re both going to treat that\r\npatient very differently. We still get that patient pregnant, but in different ways, and\r\nbecause of the differences in treatment, you're comparing oranges to apples when\r\nyou compare the success rates. This is because Dr. X might take a patient whose\r\nchances of getting pregnant are a lot harder.<\/p>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>If Unsuccessful, What\u2019s Next?<\/strong><\/span>\r\n15:38 \u2013 16:47\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Dr. Paul Lin:<\/strong> I think you sit down with the doctor if a treatment plan didn't work\r\nout, and they usually have a well thought out treatment plan moving forward of how\r\nwe're going to do this differently. They should be very transparent about what they\r\nare planning on doing. You should ask those tough questions. I love patients who\r\nasked me tough questions. Why did you think about that? Why'd you decide to do\r\nthis? Why'd you decide to do that? A lot of it is not very evidence-based medicine. 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Those are the doctors you kind of want to go to, telling a\r\npatient that it is probably not a good idea to do IVF because I don't want to take\r\nyour money, and this is an expensive emotional process. That's a good physician.\r\nBut a doctor who fails to get a 43-year-old pregnant, and the patient decides to put\r\na bad review on there won\u2019t be fair. The review could say that the treatment was\r\nterrible, but I think it\u2019s not fair. They should be evaluating things that are objective.\r\nHow fast was the telephone call answered? How responsive was your nurse to your\r\ninquiry? What was the accessibility of your lab results? 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