Last week, my therapist and I had an interesting discussion about what kind of a person goes into the field of reproductive endocrinology. We decided it must take a special sort.
My therapist - we'll call her Dr. Luz, so she doesn't have to remain nameless for the duration of this blog - suggested that we enlightened, reproductively-challenged folk put our considerable brain power and experience together to develop a personality profile of the average RE. This way, we as consumers will know when our doc's behavior is just normal, run-of-the-mill quirky and when it strays into the land of sheer incompetence.
I think it's a splendid idea!
I'll start:
My RE is a young-ish woman, who apparently has no children of her own. I deduced this from the lack of personal photos in the office. She may be single, too, I failed to notice the ring finger. She's white, petite, and very neat (neat - anal-retentive; not neat - nifty).
She's a statistician who prides herself on telling it straight and not dancing around the hard truth. She believes in hard science, as opposed to "anecdotal information". And she does not perceive any connection between what she does for a living - creating embryos and hopefully infants - and what her patients do - bring children into this world. Thus, her comment to me about not losing any time before getting back to TTC before I hit the daunting age of twenty-seven. Heaven forbid I take a moment to grieve and heal.
She's got a terse bedside manner and does not give patients the warm-fuzzies. But she does at least pick up the phone to personally deliver bad news. I know for a fact not all docs can bring themselves to do that one.
What's your RE like? Share his/her profile in a comment, and I'll do the oh-so-scientific compilations. The FBI's got nothin' on me!
