How not to get ripped off by IVF doctors

This is a great article, at http://www.conceptionadvice.com/how-not-to-be-ripped-off-by-fertility-clinics/

Please do read it  - a lot of these malpractices are rampant in Indian IVF clinics as well.

I especially love the following paragraph !

Blinded by Pseudo Science

If a stranger down the pub told you the best way to get pregnant was to get a cheap bit of plastic and waggle it around inside your womb, would you believe them? Probably not. But if that advice came from a doctor and was given a fancy scientific sounding name, would you believe them?

Some fertility clinics offer add-on services as a supplement to the core treatment (i.e. in addition to a treatment like IVF). While these add-ons sound scientific, they have no evidence to prove that they improve your chances of getting pregnant. They won’t just harm your bank balance; some may even harm your chances of getting pregnant.

At the time of writing this, the following add-on services have no conclusive evidence that they improve your chances of getting pregnant:

• Endometrial scratching
• Embryo glue
• Ultra-high magnification sperm selection (also known as Intracytoplasmic Morphological Sperm Injection or IMSI)
• Multiple Ejaculation Resuspension and Centrifugation (MERC)
• Fertility immunotherapy
• Embryo time lapse imaging
• Assisted hatching
• Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) – Not to be confused with Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), which is a legitimate treatment

This list is not exhaustive and new add-on services are being developed all the time. So, how do you stop yourself being taken in by one or more of these?