Managing an IVF patient’s expectations

Managing the high expectations of patients concerning the outcome of an IVF cycle is one of the hardest tasks that IVF specialists have to face. It is only natural for infertile patients to have high hopes of success after IVF and it’s only natural for doctors to be always optimistic and keep their patients’ hopes alive.

However, the problem arises when the outcome is negative and the patient feels cheated. This is normally the case when a doctor is overenthusiastic about IVF treatment and fails to clearly disclose to the patient the possibility of failure for fear of loosing out to doctors in other IVF clinics. This can be traced back to the fact that doctors are naturally confident in their work and they never want to appear doubtful about their job.

Good IVF specialists should be open with their patients and try to make them understand that there is always the possibility of failure regardless of the clinic they visit. The way forward would be for patients to arm themselves with information therapy ; and seek independent counseling to prepare them psychologically for all possible outcomes.

The guaranteed pregnancy option is another way of helping patients cope. It reduces complaints and information about the Malpani IVF clinic program can be found at http://www.drmalpani.com/guaranteedpregnancy.htm. 

IVF patients should stop viewing IVF as a single-cycle treatment, and understand that it can take them time to achieve their goal ; that patience and persistence pay off ; and that the reward is well worth the time and effort !