LAiMA OBGYN

Lara Hues

After jumping through the seemingly endless loops with my insurance to get a referral to a fertility specialist, I went to see Dr. Leibovsky in 2017. He never took my infertility seriously and told me a long metaphor of waiting for a train and that I just missed my train and I should wait patiently for the next one. When I explained that we had been trying since fall of 2014 without success, he brushed it off again and told me to keep trying but not think about trying and just live my life normally and forget my desire to get pregnant and not to stress. And I was like, okay, fine. I will try to not try and to forget my intense desire for a baby. Insane advice in and of itself in my opinion. I came back six months later and he seemed genuinely surprised that I wasn't pregnant. He said "Why aren't you pregnant?" and I said "I don't know. That's why I'm here." He then gave me Clomid. Did not monitor what effect the Clomid had. Didn't use it in conjunction with IUI. Just gave me a prescription for Clomid and told me to take it for three months. (July, Aug, Sept 2017). No pregnancy. I went back and he was like, well, I guess you have no options but IVF. Here's a card for another doctor. And now that I've been infertile a long time (7 years) I see so many issues with what went down. Giving me Clomid without monitoring what happened? Telling me the next step was IVF when IUI was an option? The part that hurt a lot was that Dr. L never seemed to actually care that I was infertile or about the emotional side-effects of the repeated failure to conceive month after month and instead made me feel like I was to blame when he said "Why aren't you pregnant?" I hope that in the past few years his empathy for his patients and the hell that is infertility has increased. Dr. L, I have bad news; My infertility was real and it wasn't a matter of impatience on my part. Just wanted you to know that I'm still not pregnant, and have since tried IVF repeatedly, and no one knows why and it devastates me to know that you might have been able to help me have a family if you'd been a little more invested in my case. I absolutely recognize that doctors don't have all the answers, and that some infertility remains a mystery forever, but I recommend that couples with infertility find a physician who can mourn with them in those scenarios rather than shrug their shoulders and tell them to stop stressing so much.

Aimee Roberts

I was in trouble and needed help. This office was quick to respond and the doctors most caring, over and above their area. I'm grateful and would encourage you to call now!

paijonmc

I found myself in the right place from the moment I made the phone call till when my appointment was finished. The wait was not long.